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title: They held each other by the hand, as the old grand-father and grand-… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They held each other by the hand, as the old grand-father and grand-mother yonder in the New Booths did, and they talked exactly like them of old times, and of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. Who acts: wife, New Booths. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbu
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 132

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They held each other by the hand, as the old grand-father and grand-mother yonder in the New Booths did, and they talked exactly like them of old times, and of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.

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**Who acts:** wife, New Booths · **What happens:** hold, do, talk, wed · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, New Booths), 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:pg1597:17:132
# text = They held each other by the hand, as the old grand-father and grand-mother yonder in the New Booths did, and they talked exactly like them of old times, and of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Booths	Booth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | wife | each |  |  |  | by the hand and the old grand father and grand mother; of the fiftieth anniversary of wife's wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | the New Booths |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | past | wife |  |  |  | time | like Booths *= booth* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wed** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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