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title: And then he told his wife about the old house and the old man, and o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he told his wife about the old house and the old man, and of the tin soldier which he had sent across, because he thought the old man was lonely; and he related the story so clearly that tears came into the eyes of the young wife for the old house and the old man. " Who acts: riddance, old 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 133

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And then he told his wife about the old house and the old man, and of the tin soldier which he had sent across, because he thought the old man was lonely; and he related the story so clearly that tears came into the eyes of the young wife for the old house and the old man. "

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**Who acts:** riddance, old man, tears · **What happens:** tell, send, think, be, relate, come · **To what, where:** wife, story, eyes · **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 House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riddance, old man, tears), 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:pg27200:131:133
# text = And then he told his wife about the old house and the old man, and of the tin soldier which he had sent across, because he thought the old man was lonely; and he related the story so clearly that tears came into the eyes of the young wife for the old house and the old man. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	across	across	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | riddance |  | riddance's wife |  | then | about the old house and the old man | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about house=Topic |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the tin soldier; across *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of soldier=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | riddance |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **relate** | past | riddance | the story |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | tears |  |  | the eyes of the young wife |  | for the old house and the old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_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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