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title: Then in came the old man with the most pleased and happy face, the m… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then in came the old man with the most pleased and happy face, the most delicious preserves, apples, and nuts, and so the little boy thought no more about the pewter soldier. Who acts: old man, little boy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 63

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Then in came the old man with the most pleased and happy face, the most delicious preserves, apples, and nuts, and so the little boy thought no more about the pewter soldier.

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**Who acts:** old man, little boy · **What happens:** come, think · **To what, where:** nuts, more

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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 (old man, little boy), 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:pg1597:19:63
# text = Then in came the old man with the most pleased and happy face, the most delicious preserves, apples, and nuts, and so the little boy thought no more about the pewter soldier.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	preserves	preserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	pewter	pewter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | the old man with the pleased face | nuts |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the little boy | more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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