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title: They gave notice that every young man who was handsome was free to v… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They gave notice that every young man who was handsome was free to visit the castle and speak with the princess; and those who could reply loud enough to be heard when spoken to, were to make themselves quite at home at the palace; but the one who spoke best would be chosen as a husband for the prin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 28

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They gave notice that every young man who was handsome was free to visit the castle and speak with the princess; and those who could reply loud enough to be heard when spoken to, were to make themselves quite at home at the palace; but the one who spoke best would be chosen as a husband for the princess.

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**Who acts:** newspapers, young man, notice, those, one · **What happens:** give, be, visit, speak, reply, hear · **To what, where:** notice, castle, newspapers, home, best, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newspapers, young man, notice, those), 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:pg27200:173:28
# text = They gave notice that every young man who was handsome was free to visit the castle and speak with the princess; and those who could reply loud enough to be heard when spoken to, were to make themselves quite at home at the palace; but the one who spoke best would be chosen as a husband for the princess.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
34	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	obj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | newspapers *= newspaper* | notice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | every young man |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | notice |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | notice *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | notice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with princess=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **reply** *speech: assert* | could |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** | past | those | newspapers *= newspaper* |  | home |  | at the palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 10 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the one | best |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **choose** | would · passive |  | the one |  |  |  | as a husband; for the princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for princess=Beneficiary |

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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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