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title: Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play; only little Anna and her grandpapa were left at home. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 1

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Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play; only little Anna and her grandpapa were left at home.

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**What happens:** go, leave · **To what, where:** Father, little Anna, home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:127:1
# text = Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play; only little Anna and her grandpapa were left at home.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · passive |  | Father and brothers and sisters |  |  |  | to the play | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | little Anna and her grandpapa |  | home |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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