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title: "Nothing goes well with them," said the father; "they will never bri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nothing goes well with them," said the father; "they will never bring the glittering jewel home, it is not made for me; they are all dead and gone." Who acts: Nothing, father, brothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 178

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"Nothing goes well with them," said the father; "they will never bring the glittering jewel home, it is not made for me; they are all dead and gone."

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**Who acts:** Nothing, father, brothers · **What happens:** go, say, not bring, not make, be · **To what, where:** glittering jewel, Sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, father, brothers), 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:pg27200:143:178
# text = "Nothing goes well with them," said the father; "they will never bring the glittering jewel home, it is not made for me; they are all dead and gone."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | with brothers *= brother*; well *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | future | brothers *= brother* | the glittering jewel |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Sun |  |  |  | for the father *= father* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for i=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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