--- title: "'Yes,' said the old woman, 'I remember it very well; we used to wat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'Yes,' said the old woman, 'I remember it very well; we used to water the branches, and one of them, an elder-tree branch, took root, and grew and became the large tree under which we are now sitting as old people.' Who acts: old woman, mother, we, one. 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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 (old woman, mother, we, one), 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:pg27200:72:32 # text = "'Yes,' said the old woman, 'I remember it very well; we used to water the branches, and one of them, an elder-tree branch, took root, and grew and became the large tree under which we are now sitting as old people.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 37 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ _ 46 under under ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 obl _ _ 48 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 51 advmod _ _ 51 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 acl:relcl _ _ 52 as as ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | mother | wedding | | | | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **use** *in a quote* | past | we | water | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **branch** *in a quote* | | one of branches | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | past | we *not said here* | root | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | | 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **become** *in a quote* | past | | the large tree | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **sit** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | the large tree | now | as old people | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/33/) - ↑ back to [The Little Elder-tree Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/)