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title: "My mother had hardly understood what he said before he disappeared… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "My mother had hardly understood what he said before he disappeared from the room, and went downstairs, in order to save her the troublesome walk for the gift she came to fetch. Who acts: child, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 95

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"My mother had hardly understood what he said before he disappeared from the room, and went downstairs, in order to save her the troublesome walk for the gift she came to fetch.

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**Who acts:** child, mother · **What happens:** understand, say, disappear, go, save, come · **To what, where:** mother, room, troublesome walk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, mother), 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:pg27200:155:95
# text = "My mother had hardly understood what he said before he disappeared from the room, and went downstairs, in order to save her the troublesome walk for the gift she came to fetch.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | My mother |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappear** *in a quote* | past | child |  |  | the room |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from room=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **save** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the troublesome walk | mother |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary walk=Theme |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | past | mother | the troublesome walk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fetch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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