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title: The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, “Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age”; the others were either blind, had withered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands. Who acts: healthiest, Hunger, others. A sentence of «Andersen's F
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 89

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The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, “Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age”; the others were either blind, had withered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.

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**Who acts:** healthiest, Hunger, others · **What happens:** resemble, use, come, be, wither, creep · **To what, where:** expression, legs, hands, arms

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (healthiest, Hunger, others), 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:pg1597:9:89
# text = The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, “Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age”; the others were either blind, had withered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Marryat	Marryat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hunger	Hunger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc:preconj	_	_
32	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
36	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	withered	wither	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	fingerless	fingerless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | past | the healthiest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the healthiest *not said here* | a expression of Marryat |  |  |  | Hunger's eldest son *vocative* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Hunger |  |  |  | of age |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of age=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the others |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wither** | past · perfect | the others *not said here* | legs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **creep** | past | the healthiest *not said here* |  |  | beggars's hands |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory |
| 7 | **wither** | past | the healthiest *not said here* | arms and fingerless hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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