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title: They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three. Who acts: branches. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 21

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They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three.

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**Who acts:** branches · **What happens:** feel, go · **To what, where:** wish

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches), 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:pg1597:18:21
# text = They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
12	except	except	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | branches *= branch* | a wish |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | branches *= branch* *not said here* | a wish *not said here* |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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