--- title: His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and ordered the teapot to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and ordered the teapot to be brought in, that she might make him a good cup of tea from the elder-tree blossoms, which is so warming. Who acts: mother, tree blossoms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Little Elder-tree Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 3 His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and ordered the teapot to be brought in, that she might make him a good cup of tea from the elder-tree blossoms, which is so warming. **Who acts:** mother, tree blossoms · **What happens:** undress, put, order, bring in, make, warm · **To what, where:** boy, teapot, good cup, tree blossoms This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, tree blossoms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:72:3 # text = His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and ordered the teapot to be brought in, that she might make him a good cup of tea from the elder-tree blossoms, which is so warming. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 undressed undress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 teapot teapot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 warming warm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **undress** | past | boy's mother | boy | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | boy's mother *not said here* | | boy | | | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | | 3 | **order** | past | | the teapot | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teapot=Theme | | 4 | **bring in** | to-infinitive · passive | | the teapot *not said here* | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **make** | might | mother | a good cup of tea | boy | the tree blossoms | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary cup=Product from blossom=Material | | 6 | **warm** | present · progressive | the tree blossoms | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/4/) - ↑ back to [The Little Elder-tree Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/)