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title: They were both young and healthy, well-grown and strong; but Jurgen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both young and healthy, well-grown and strong; but Jurgen was the cleverer of the two. Who acts: adventures, Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 57

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They were both young and healthy, well-grown and strong; but Jurgen was the cleverer of the two.

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**Who acts:** adventures, Jurgen · **What happens:** be, grow

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:160:57
# text = They were both young and healthy, well-grown and strong; but Jurgen was the cleverer of the two.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | both, young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | of the two; clever *property* | 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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