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title: With stones and mussel-shells he could put together pictures and shi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: With stones and mussel-shells he could put together pictures and ships with which one could decorate the room; and he could make wonderful things from a stick, his foster-mother said, although he was still so young and little. Who acts: boy, pictures, foster mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 25

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With stones and mussel-shells he could put together pictures and ships with which one could decorate the room; and he could make wonderful things from a stick, his foster-mother said, although he was still so young and little.

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**Who acts:** boy, pictures, foster mother · **What happens:** put together, decorate, make, say, be · **To what, where:** room, wonderful things, stick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, pictures, foster 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:pg27200:159:25
# text = With stones and mussel-shells he could put together pictures and ships with which one could decorate the room; and he could make wonderful things from a stick, his foster-mother said, although he was still so young and little.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	mussel	mussel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	decorate	decorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	ccomp	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put together** | could | boy |  |  |  |  | with stones and mussel shells; together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decorate** | could | pictures with which one and ships | the room |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | could | boy | wonderful things |  | a stick |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent thing=Product from stick=Material |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy's foster mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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