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title: “'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 75

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“'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** have, say, be · **To what, where:** children, old sailor, grand children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (children), 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:pg1597:17:75
# text = “'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	vigor	vigor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Mary's children | children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the old sailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | our grand children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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