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title: The next Sunday morning the little boy wrapped something in a piece… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next Sunday morning the little boy wrapped something in a piece of paper and took it to the door of the old house, and said to the attendant who waited upon the old man, "Will you please give this from me to the gentleman who lives here; I have two tin soldiers, and this is one of them, and he s
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 23

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The next Sunday morning the little boy wrapped something in a piece of paper and took it to the door of the old house, and said to the attendant who waited upon the old man, "Will you please give this from me to the gentleman who lives here; I have two tin soldiers, and this is one of them, and he shall have it, because I know he is terribly lonely."

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**Who acts:** little boy, attendant, gentleman, I, this, boy · **What happens:** wrap, take, say, wait, give, live · **To what, where:** something, piece, paper, door, attendant, this · **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 (little boy, attendant, gentleman, I), 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:pg27200:131:23
# text = The next Sunday morning the little boy wrapped something in a piece of paper and took it to the door of the old house, and said to the attendant who waited upon the old man, "Will you please give this from me to the gentleman who lives here; I have two tin soldiers, and this is one of them, and he shall have it, because I know he is terribly lonely."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
43	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
55	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
56	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	nsubj	_	_
61	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
62	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	parataxis	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
68	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
69	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	parataxis	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
72	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
73	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj	_	_
74	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	69	parataxis	_	_
75	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
76	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	78	cop	_	_
77	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
78	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | the little boy | something |  | a piece of paper | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the little boy *not said here* | paper |  | the door of the old house |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the attendant |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** | past | the attendant |  |  |  |  | upon the old man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the attendant *= attendant* | this | the gentleman |  |  | from me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to gentleman=Recipient |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the gentleman |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | two tin soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | one |  |  |  | of soldiers *= soldier* | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | boy | paper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 10 | **know** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **is** *in a quote* | present | boy |  |  |  |  | lonely, terribly *property* | 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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