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title: Here dwelt a newly married couple who completely gave themselves up… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here dwelt a newly married couple who completely gave themselves up to the charm of life; indeed they possessed every good thing they could desire--health and happiness, riches and honour. Who acts: married couple, youths. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A S
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 7

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Here dwelt a newly married couple who completely gave themselves up to the charm of life; indeed they possessed every good thing they could desire--health and happiness, riches and honour.

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**Who acts:** married couple, youths · **What happens:** dwell, marry, give up, possess, desire · **To what, where:** married couple, youths, charm, good thing, health

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (married couple, youths), 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:pg27200:158:7
# text = Here dwelt a newly married couple who completely gave themselves up to the charm of life; indeed they possessed every good thing they could desire--health and happiness, riches and honour.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **dwell** | past |  | a married couple |  | here |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location |
| 2 | **marry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give up** | past | a married couple | youths *= youth* | the charm of life |  |  | completely *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to charm=Recipient |
| 4 | **possess** | past | youths *= youth* | every good thing |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** | could | youths *= youth* | health and happiness and riches and honour |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot health=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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