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title: And they receive his blessing, and celebrate their wedding, and all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And they receive his blessing, and celebrate their wedding, and all the pieces of furniture sing in chorus, Who acts: son, lamb. 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 104

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And they receive his blessing, and celebrate their wedding, and all the pieces of furniture sing in chorus,

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**Who acts:** son, lamb · **What happens:** receive, celebrate, bless, wed · **To what, where:** blessing, chorus, wedding

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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: who acts (son, lamb), 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:pg27200:127:104
# text = And they receive his blessing, and celebrate their wedding, and all the pieces of furniture sing in chorus,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | son | lamb's blessing |  | chorus |  | all pieces of furniture sing *obl* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme in chorus=Location |
| 2 | **celebrate** | infinitive | son *not said here* | son's wedding |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme |
| 3 | **bless** |  | lamb |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **wed** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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:** «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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