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title: The burgomaster gave him two dollars for travelling expenses, and ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The burgomaster gave him two dollars for travelling expenses, and many citizens offered him provisions and beer--there were still good people; they were not all hard and pitiless. Who acts: burgomaster, many citizens, good people, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 62

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The burgomaster gave him two dollars for travelling expenses, and many citizens offered him provisions and beer--there were still good people; they were not all hard and pitiless.

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**Who acts:** burgomaster, many citizens, good people, people · **What happens:** give, offer, be, not be · **To what, where:** two dollars, compensation, provisions

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burgomaster, many citizens, good people, people), 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:pg27200:161:62
# text = The burgomaster gave him two dollars for travelling expenses, and many citizens offered him provisions and beer--there were still good people; they were not all hard and pitiless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pitiless	pitiless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | past | the burgomaster | two dollars | compensation |  |  | for travelling expenses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Theme for expense=Asset |
| 2 | **offer** | past | many citizens | provisions and beer | compensation |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal provision=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | good people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | all, hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | people *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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