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title: They wanted to draw the young artist out with them into the merry wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They wanted to draw the young artist out with them into the merry wild life, the mad life as it might also be called; and at certain times he felt an inclination for it. Who acts: friends, Fornarina. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 24

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They wanted to draw the young artist out with them into the merry wild life, the mad life as it might also be called; and at certain times he felt an inclination for it.

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**Who acts:** friends, Fornarina · **What happens:** want, draw, call, feel · **To what, where:** young artist, merry wild life, artist, inclination · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friends, Fornarina), 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:pg27200:151:24
# text = They wanted to draw the young artist out with them into the merry wild life, the mad life as it might also be called; and at certain times he felt an inclination for it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | the young artist |  |  |  | into the merry wild life and the mad life *result*; with friends *= friend*; out *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent artist=Patient into life=Result |
| 3 | **call** | might · passive |  | artist |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Fornarina | a inclination |  |  | time | for artist | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent inclination=Location for it=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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