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title: “I find it so very delightful here, and then all the old thoughts, w… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I find it so very delightful here, and then all the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them, they come and visit here.” Who acts: little boy, thoughts. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 59

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“I find it so very delightful here, and then all the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them, they come and visit here.”

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**Who acts:** little boy, thoughts · **What happens:** find, bring, come, visit · **To what, where:** grave, old thoughts

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, thoughts), 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:pg1597:19:59
# text = “I find it so very delightful here, and then all the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them, they come and visit here.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | grave |  | here |  | all old thoughts *obl*; delightful *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | may | thoughts *= thought* | all old thoughts |  |  |  | with drawers *= drawer* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** *in a quote* | present | thoughts *= thought* *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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