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title: He could no longer see the betrothed couple, nor the cheerful old pe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He could no longer see the betrothed couple, nor the cheerful old people; but for a long time he could hear them rejoicing and singing. Who acts: water, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 53

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He could no longer see the betrothed couple, nor the cheerful old people; but for a long time he could hear them rejoicing and singing.

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**Who acts:** water, people · **What happens:** see, betroth, hear, rejoice, sing · **To what, where:** betrothed couple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, people), 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:pg27200:13:53
# text = He could no longer see the betrothed couple, nor the cheerful old people; but for a long time he could hear them rejoicing and singing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | water | the betrothed couple  the cheerful old people |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer couple=Stimulus |
| 2 | **betroth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | could | water |  |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rejoice** | gerund | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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