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title: He was a good boy, brisk and clever, and he went to the night school… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a good boy, brisk and clever, and he went to the night school in the Academy now, to learn to draw properly. Who acts: George, good boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 59

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He was a good boy, brisk and clever, and he went to the night school in the Academy now, to learn to draw properly.

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**Who acts:** George, good boy · **What happens:** be, brisk, go, learn, draw · **To what, where:** good boy, night school

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, good boy), 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:pg27200:146:59
# text = He was a good boy, brisk and clever, and he went to the night school in the Academy now, to learn to draw properly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	brisk	brisk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | George | a good boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brisk** | infinitive | a good boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | George |  |  | the night school in the Academy | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **draw** | to-infinitive | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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