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title: And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning. Who acts: child, good children. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 35

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And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.

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**Who acts:** child, good children · **What happens:** relate, take, make, be, heed · **To what, where:** story, great heed, fools, naughty Cupid

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, good children), 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:pg1597:26:35
# text = And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	astonishingly	astonishingly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past | child | this story |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | good children | great heed of naughty Cupid |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | child | fools of fools |  |  | still |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | for cunning; astonishingly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **heed** |  |  | naughty Cupid |  |  |  |  | nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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