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title: To this home he clung with deep-rooted affection; he was to experien… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: To this home he clung with deep-rooted affection; he was to experience cold and hunger, and the misfortunes and hardships that surround the poor; but he also tasted of their joys. Who acts: man, misfortunes, hardships. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 20

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To this home he clung with deep-rooted affection; he was to experience cold and hunger, and the misfortunes and hardships that surround the poor; but he also tasted of their joys.

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**Who acts:** man, misfortunes, hardships · **What happens:** cling, root, be, surround, taste, joy · **To what, where:** misfortunes, poor

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, misfortunes, hardships), 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:pg27200:159:20
# text = To this home he clung with deep-rooted affection; he was to experience cold and hunger, and the misfortunes and hardships that surround the poor; but he also tasted of their joys.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	rooted	root	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	experience	experience	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | past | man | the misfortunes and hardships |  |  |  | to this home; with deep rooted affection | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to home=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **root** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | experience *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **surround** | present | the misfortunes and hardships | the poor |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme poor=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **taste** | past | man |  |  |  |  | of hardships's joys | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **joy** |  | hardships *= hardship* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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