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title: Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they k… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations that very morning; but the old people had forgotten it, although they were able to remember all that had happened many years ago. 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 79

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Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations that very morning; but the old people had forgotten it, although they were able to remember all that had happened many years ago.

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**Who acts:** people, hand, gratulations, old people, that · **What happens:** come, know, be, morning, forget, remember · **To what, where:** children, enough, day, hand · **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 (people, hand, gratulations, old people), 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:pg1597:17:79
# text = Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations that very morning; but the old people had forgotten it, although they were able to remember all that had happened many years ago.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	gratulations	gratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	55	det:predet	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	ccomp	_	_
56	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl:unmarked	_	_
58	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | people's children |  |  |  | people's grand children *obl*; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | people | enough |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | hand | the day |  |  |  | of the fiftieth anniversary | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people's gratulations | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **morning** |  | people's gratulations |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forget** | past · perfect | the old people | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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