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title: They hung me round the neck of a little child, and the child laughed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They hung me round the neck of a little child, and the child laughed at me and kissed me, and I rested for one whole night on the warm, innocent breast of a child. Who acts: qualities, child, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 56

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They hung me round the neck of a little child, and the child laughed at me and kissed me, and I rested for one whole night on the warm, innocent breast of a child.

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**Who acts:** qualities, child, I · **What happens:** hang, laugh, kiss, rest · **To what, where:** me, warm innocent breast

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (qualities, child, I), 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:pg27200:167:56
# text = They hung me round the neck of a little child, and the child laughed at me and kissed me, and I rested for one whole night on the warm, innocent breast of a child.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | qualities *= quality* | me |  |  |  | round the neck of a little child | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | the child |  |  |  |  | at me | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kiss** | past | the child *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | past | I |  |  | the warm innocent breast of a child | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on breast=Location |

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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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