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title: The brothers came forward affectionately to welcome him, and his ina… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers came forward affectionately to welcome him, and his inauguration was as a Sunday feast. Who acts: brothers, inauguration, Brother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 178

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The brothers came forward affectionately to welcome him, and his inauguration was as a Sunday feast.

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**Who acts:** brothers, inauguration, Brother · **What happens:** come forward, welcome, be, inaugurate · **To what, where:** Brother

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, inauguration, Brother), 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:pg27200:151:178
# text = The brothers came forward affectionately to welcome him, and his inauguration was as a Sunday feast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | the brothers |  |  |  |  | affectionately, forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | the brothers *not said here* | Brother |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Brother's inauguration |  |  |  |  | as a Sunday feast | tree rules |
| 4 | **inaugurate** |  | Brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «act 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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