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title: He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not ca… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild-strawberries. Who acts: He, little cottage children, firs, woods. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 4

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He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild-strawberries.

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**Who acts:** He, little cottage children, firs, woods · **What happens:** not think, not care, run about, prattle, be, look · **To what, where:** woods

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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 (He, little cottage children, firs, woods), 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:pg1597:10:4
# text = He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild-strawberries.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	prattled	prattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | He |  |  |  |  | of the warm sun and the fresh air | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  | for the little cottage children | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=Theme |
| 3 | **run about** | past | the little cottage children |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **prattle** *speech: other* | past | the little cottage children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | firs *= fir* |  |  | the woods |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | the woods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for wild strawberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme |

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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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