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title: Afterwards he was sent over to ask the little boy if he would not li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards he was sent over to ask the little boy if he would not like to pay a visit himself. Who acts: attendant. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 25

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Afterwards he was sent over to ask the little boy if he would not like to pay a visit himself.

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**Who acts:** attendant · **What happens:** send over, ask, not like, pay · **To what, where:** attendant, little boy, visit

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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 (attendant), 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:pg27200:131:25
# text = Afterwards he was sent over to ask the little boy if he would not like to pay a visit himself.
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send over** | past · passive |  | attendant |  |  |  | afterwards, over *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  | the little boy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | attendant |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | attendant *not said here* | a visit |  |  |  | attendant *obl:unmarked* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |

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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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