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title: How I have cried over 'La Famille Roquebourg'--that the man must dri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How I have cried over 'La Famille Roquebourg'--that the man must drink himself to death, so that she may marry the young fellow! Who acts: I, man, Paris. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 10

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How I have cried over 'La Famille Roquebourg'--that the man must drink himself to death, so that she may marry the young fellow!

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**Who acts:** I, man, Paris · **What happens:** cry over, drink, marry · **To what, where:** La, young fellow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, Paris), 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:pg27200:139:10
# text = How I have cried over 'La Famille Roquebourg'--that the man must drink himself to death, so that she may marry the young fellow!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	Famille	Famille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Roquebourg	Roquebourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry over** *speech: express* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | must | the man | La |  |  |  | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **marry** | may | Paris | the young fellow |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=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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