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title: The sons had never gone farther from the castle than the branches of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sons had never gone farther from the castle than the branches of the trees extended, and the sister had scarcely ever left home. Who acts: sons, branches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 52

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The sons had never gone farther from the castle than the branches of the trees extended, and the sister had scarcely ever left home.

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**Who acts:** sons, branches · **What happens:** not go, extend, leave · **To what, where:** castle, sister

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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 (sons, branches), 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:pg27200:143:52
# text = The sons had never gone farther from the castle than the branches of the trees extended, and the sister had scarcely ever left home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the sons |  |  | the castle than the branches |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **extend** | past | the branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the trees | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sister |  |  | ever | home, scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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