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title: One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking becam… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted. Who acts: One, blacking, boots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 9

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One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted.

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**Who acts:** One, blacking, boots · **What happens:** speak, become, part, cause · **To what, where:** black cause, last, enmity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, blacking, boots), 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:pg27200:135:9
# text = One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stinginess	stinginess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blacking	blacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | One |  |  |  |  | of stinginess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | the blacking | the black cause of enmity between boots |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **part** | past | boots *= boot* |  |  | last |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | enmity between boots |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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