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title: Each tree and flower had a name; each represented a human life, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each tree and flower had a name; each represented a human life, and belonged to men still living, some in China, others in Greenland, and in all parts of the world. Who acts: tree, each. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 64

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Each tree and flower had a name; each represented a human life, and belonged to men still living, some in China, others in Greenland, and in all parts of the world.

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**Who acts:** tree, each · **What happens:** have, represent, belong, live · **To what, where:** name, human life, China

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, each), 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:pg27200:185:64
# text = Each tree and flower had a name; each represented a human life, and belonged to men still living, some in China, others in Greenland, and in all parts of the world.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | each tree and flower | a name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **represent** | past | each | a human life |  |  |  | in all parts of the world | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot life=Theme in part=Attribute |
| 3 | **belong** | past | each *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to men | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | each *not said here* |  |  | some China and others in Greenland | still |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=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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