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title: And King Louis sent the executioner to them every week, and had a to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And King Louis sent the executioner to them every week, and had a tooth pulled out of the head of each, that they might not be too comfortable; and the elder of the boys said, 'My mother would die of grief if she knew that my younger brother had to suffer so cruelly; therefore pull out two of my tee
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 53

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And King Louis sent the executioner to them every week, and had a tooth pulled out of the head of each, that they might not be too comfortable; and the elder of the boys said, 'My mother would die of grief if she knew that my younger brother had to suffer so cruelly; therefore pull out two of my teeth, and spare him.'

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**Who acts:** King, tooth, elder, mother, younger brother · **What happens:** send, have, pull out, not be, say, die · **To what, where:** executioner, children, tooth, head, two, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, tooth, elder, mother), 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:pg27200:138:53
# text = And King Louis sent the executioner to them every week, and had a tooth pulled out of the head of each, that they might not be too comfortable; and the elder of the boys said, 'My mother would die of grief if she knew that my younger brother had to suffer so cruelly; therefore pull out two of my teeth, and spare him.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	amod	_	_
53	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
60	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
62	out	out	ADP	RP	_	61	compound:prt	_	_
63	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	61	conj	_	_
70	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | King | the executioner | children *= child* |  | week |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent executioner=Theme to they=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | past | King *not said here* | a tooth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **pull out** | participle | a tooth *not said here* | the head of each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | might | king |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the elder of the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **die** | would | My mother |  |  |  |  | of grief | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
| 7 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **have** | past | my younger brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **suffer** | to-infinitive | my younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cruelly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **pull out** | infinitive |  | two of my teeth |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **spare** | infinitive |  | brother |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=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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