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title: And what about the genius of the family--the fourth brother--who wan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And what about the genius of the family--the fourth brother--who wanted to invent something new and original? Who acts: fourth brother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 148

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And what about the genius of the family--the fourth brother--who wanted to invent something new and original?

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**Who acts:** fourth brother · **What happens:** want, invent · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth brother), 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:pg27200:177:148
# text = And what about the genius of the family--the fourth brother--who wanted to invent something new and original?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the fourth brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **invent** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fourth brother *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result |

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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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