--- title: How pretty she was! and such a singer! not a theatre singer, nor a b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: How pretty she was! and such a singer! not a theatre singer, nor a ballad singer; no, but a singer of the woods; for she wandered through the gay green forest, and had a concert there for her own amusement. Who acts: lady, singer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, singer), 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:pg27200:82:54 # text = How pretty she was! and such a singer! not a theatre singer, nor a ballad singer; no, but a singer of the woods; for she wandered through the gay green forest, and had a concert there for her own amusement. 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 9 det:predet _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 ballad ballad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 21 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 32 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 amusement amusement NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | lady | such singer | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wander** | past | a singer of the woods | | | the gay green forest | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | past | a singer of the woods *not said here* | a concert | | there | | for lady's own amusement | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concert=Patient | | 4 | **amuse** | | lady | | | | | | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/55/) - ↑ back to [The Mail-coach Passengers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/)