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title: In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "for the scraps;" that is to say, to eat up the remains of the dinner. Who acts: aunt, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 92

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In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "for the scraps;" that is to say, to eat up the remains of the dinner.

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**Who acts:** aunt, that · **What happens:** use, have, be, eat up · **To what, where:** remains

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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 (aunt, that), 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:pg27200:139:92
# text = In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "for the scraps;" that is to say, to eat up the remains of the dinner.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | aunt |  |  |  | time | therefore *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | aunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a little child; for the scraps | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | the remains of the dinner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=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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