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title: He had five children; four sons, educated as the children of such a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 51

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He had five children; four sons, educated as the children of such a wise father should be, and a daughter, fair, gentle, and intelligent, but she was blind; yet this deprivation appeared as nothing to her; her father and brothers were outward eyes to her, and a vivid imagination made everything clear to her mental sight.

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**Who acts:** point, Christianity, deprivation, father, vivid imagination · **What happens:** have, educate, be, appear, make, sight · **To what, where:** five children, four sons, outward eyes, Christianity, everything

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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 (point, Christianity, deprivation, father), 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:pg27200:143:51
# text = He had five children; four sons, educated as the children of such a wise father should be, and a daughter, fair, gentle, and intelligent, but she was blind; yet this deprivation appeared as nothing to her; her father and brothers were outward eyes to her, and a vivid imagination made everything clear to her mental sight.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	deprivation	deprivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	40	obl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
61	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	60	obj	_	_
62	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
65	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | point | five children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **educate** *speech: other* | participle |  | four sons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Christianity |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | past | this deprivation |  |  |  |  | as nothing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Christianity's father and brothers | outward eyes | Christianity |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past | a vivid imagination | everything |  |  |  | to Christianity's mental sight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 7 | **sight** |  | Christianity |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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