--- title: After a while, it is quite certain the foster-mother began to love t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: After a while, it is quite certain the foster-mother began to love the poor frog, with its gentle eyes and its deep sighs, even better than the little beauty who bit and fought with all around her. Who acts: coast, foster mother, little beauty. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coast, foster mother, little beauty), 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:pg27200:84:37 # text = After a while, it is quite certain the foster-mother began to love the poor frog, with its gentle eyes and its deep sighs, even better than the little beauty who bit and fought with all around her. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 sighs sigh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 all all ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 around around ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | coast | | | | while | certain *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | the foster mother | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **love** | to-infinitive | the foster mother *not said here* | the poor frog | | | | with coast's gentle eyes and coast's deep sighs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | | 4 | **bite** | past | the little beauty | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fight** | past | the little beauty *not said here* | | | | | with mother | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | | 6 | **sigh** | | coast | | | | | | nom sigh «communication 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/38/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/)