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title: Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another--witho… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another--without regard to age or rank. Who acts: Father. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 119

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Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another--without regard to age or rank.

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**Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** thou, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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:pg1597:23:119
# text = Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another--without regard to age or rank.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Father and mother | thou | one |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to one=Recipient |

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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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