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title: He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much y… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all. Who acts: Charles, little sister, two things. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Anderse
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 2

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He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all.

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**Who acts:** Charles, little sister, two things · **What happens:** have, take, be, learn, not do · **To what, where:** care, lesson, all

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, little sister, two things), 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:pg1597:25:2
# text = He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Charles |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Charles *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of Charles's little sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sister=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Charles's little sister |  |  |  |  | than Charles; young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past | Charles |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Charles *not said here* | Charles's lesson |  |  | time |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **do** | would | this two things |  |  | all |  | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «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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