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title: And the three other children--the children of good birth, of money,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 34

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And the three other children--the children of good birth, of money, and of intellectual pride,--well, they were respected and honored in the world, for they had been well provided for by birth and position, and they had no cause to reproach themselves with what they had thought and spoken on that evening long ago, for, after all, it was mere "children's prattle."

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**Who acts:** children, three other children · **What happens:** respect, honor, provide, have, reproach, think · **To what, where:** children, world, cause, mere prattle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, three other children), 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:pg27200:18:34
# text = And the three other children--the children of good birth, of money, and of intellectual pride,--well, they were respected and honored in the world, for they had been well provided for by birth and position, and they had no cause to reproach themselves with what they had thought and spoken on that evening long ago, for, after all, it was mere "children's prattle."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	77	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	respected	respect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	reproach	reproach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	acl	_	_
52	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	51	obj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	det	_	_
62	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	64	advmod	_	_
64	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
66	for	for	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
68	after	after	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
71	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	77	nsubj	_	_
72	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	cop	_	_
73	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
74	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	77	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	77	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	's	's	PART	POS	_	75	case	_	_
77	prattle	prattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	77	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	77	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  | the world |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **provide** | past · perfect · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | for birth and position; well *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for birth=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **have** | past | children *= child* | no cause |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |
| 5 | **reproach** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | with no cause | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  | evening | ago *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the three other children and the children of good birth and money | children's mere prattle |  |  |  | of intellectual pride | 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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