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title: The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life. Who acts: boys, youngest, Tree. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 207

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The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.

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**Who acts:** boys, youngest, Tree · **What happens:** play about, wear, have · **To what, where:** court, gold star, breast

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, youngest, Tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:10:207
# text = The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play about** | past | the boys |  |  | the court |  | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** | past | the youngest | the gold star |  | boy's breast |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent star=Source |
| 3 | **have** | past · perfect | the Tree | boy's breast |  |  | evening |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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