--- title: How happy and delighted the little boy was; and after he returned ho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: How happy and delighted the little boy was; and after he returned home, and while days and weeks passed, a great deal of nodding took place from one house to the other, and then the little boy went to pay another visit. Who acts: little boy, boy, days, great deal. 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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, boy, days, great deal), 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:pg27200:131:76 # text = How happy and delighted the little boy was; and after he returned home, and while days and weeks passed, a great deal of nodding took place from one house to the other, and then the little boy went to pay another visit. 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 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 2 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 nodding nodding NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 46 det _ _ 46 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the little boy | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the little boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **return** | past | boy | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pass** | past | days and weeks | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | past | a great deal of nodding | place | | one house | | to the other | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme from house=Initial\_Location to other=Destination | | 6 | **go** | past | the little boy | | | | then | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the little boy *not said here* | another visit | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | | 8 | **deal** | | | nodding | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/77/) - ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/)