--- title: While he was yet a child, his parents removed from Marbach, and went… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: While he was yet a child, his parents removed from Marbach, and went to reside in another town; but their dearest friends remained behind at Marbach, and therefore sometimes the mother and her son would start on a fine day to pay a visit to the little town. 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C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, parents, dearest friends, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:129:17 # text = While he was yet a child, his parents removed from Marbach, and went to reside in another town; but their dearest friends remained behind at Marbach, and therefore sometimes the mother and her son would start on a fine day to pay a visit to the little town. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Marbach Marbach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 reside reside VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dearest dear ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Marbach Marbach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | boy | a child | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **remove** | past | boy's parents | | | Marbach | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from marbach=Source | | 3 | **go** | past | boy's parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **reside** | to-infinitive | boy's parents *not said here* | | | another town | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | | 5 | **remain** | past | parents's dearest friends | | | Marbach | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind marbach=Location | | 6 | **start** | would | the mother and mother's son | | | | day | sometimes *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the mother and mother's son *not said here* | a visit | | | | to the little town | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/18/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)