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title: How often had Anthony and Molly heard the story of Tristan and Isold… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How often had Anthony and Molly heard the story of Tristan and Isolda, and Anthony had thought the story applied to him, although Tristan means born in sorrow, which Anthony certainly was not; nor was it likely he would ever say of Molly as Tristan said of Isolda, "She has forgotten me." Who acts: A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 105

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How often had Anthony and Molly heard the story of Tristan and Isolda, and Anthony had thought the story applied to him, although Tristan means born in sorrow, which Anthony certainly was not; nor was it likely he would ever say of Molly as Tristan said of Isolda, "She has forgotten me."

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**Who acts:** Anthony, Tristan, sorrow, story · **What happens:** have, hear, think, apply, mean, bear · **To what, where:** story, Anthony, born sorrow, Tristan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anthony, Tristan, sorrow, story), 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:pg27200:128:105
# text = How often had Anthony and Molly heard the story of Tristan and Isolda, and Anthony had thought the story applied to him, although Tristan means born in sorrow, which Anthony certainly was not; nor was it likely he would ever say of Molly as Tristan said of Isolda, "She has forgotten me."
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tristan	Tristan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Isolda	Isolda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	Tristan	Tristan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nmod	_	_
33	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
34	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	45	advmod	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	Tristan	Tristan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Isolda	Isolda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	conj	_	_
58	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Anthony and Molly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Anthony and Molly | the story of Tristan and Isolda |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Anthony | the story |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 4 | **apply** | participle |  | the story *not said here* | Anthony |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | Tristan | born sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Topic |
| 6 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | would · past | sorrow |  |  |  | ever | of Molly; likely, say *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tristan |  |  |  |  | of Isolda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **forget** *in a quote* | present · perfect | story | Tristan |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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