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title: So they determined to have their revenge on this boy, because he beg… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So they determined to have their revenge on this boy, because he began the song first and would keep on with it. Who acts: storks, revenge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 73

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So they determined to have their revenge on this boy, because he began the song first and would keep on with it.

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**Who acts:** storks, revenge · **What happens:** determine, have, begin, keep on, revenge · **To what, where:** revenge, song

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, revenge), 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:pg27200:183:73
# text = So they determined to have their revenge on this boy, because he began the song first and would keep on with it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | storks *= stork* *not said here* | storks's revenge |  |  |  | on this boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | revenge | the song |  |  |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep on** | would | storks *= stork* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with song | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **revenge** |  | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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