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title: They stopped at the old willow tree, as the youngest of the baron's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They stopped at the old willow tree, as the youngest of the baron's sons wished very much to have a flute from it, such as had been cut for him from other willow trees; the pastor's son broke a branch off. " Who acts: thought, sons, son. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 72

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They stopped at the old willow tree, as the youngest of the baron's sons wished very much to have a flute from it, such as had been cut for him from other willow trees; the pastor's son broke a branch off. "

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**Who acts:** thought, sons, son · **What happens:** stop, wish, have, cut, break off · **To what, where:** old willow tree, flute, other willow trees, branch

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, sons, son), 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:pg27200:155:72
# text = They stopped at the old willow tree, as the youngest of the baron's sons wished very much to have a flute from it, such as had been cut for him from other willow trees; the pastor's son broke a branch off. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	baron	baron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | thought |  |  | the old willow tree |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tree=Location |
| 2 | **wish** | past | the baron's sons |  |  |  |  | as the youngest | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | the baron's sons *not said here* | a flute |  | flute |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Patient |
| 4 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | a flute *not said here* |  | other willow trees |  | for baron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: for he=Beneficiary from tree=Material |
| 5 | **break off** | past | the pastor's son | a branch |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient |

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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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