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title: It made me think of the old stories when the gods, in their immortal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It made me think of the old stories when the gods, in their immortal youth, wandered upon this earth, and paid visits to mankind. Who acts: kind, me, gods. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 36

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It made me think of the old stories when the gods, in their immortal youth, wandered upon this earth, and paid visits to mankind.

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**Who acts:** kind, me, gods · **What happens:** make, think, wander, pay · **To what, where:** me, earth, visits

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, me, gods), 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:pg27200:152:36
# text = It made me think of the old stories when the gods, in their immortal youth, wandered upon this earth, and paid visits to mankind.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | kind | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the old stories | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wander** | past | the gods in gods's immortal youth |  |  | this earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pay** | past | kind *not said here* | visits |  |  |  | to mankind | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |

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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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