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title: This rose and the nightingale he wished to give to the princess; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This rose and the nightingale he wished to give to the princess; and therefore both were put into big silver cases and sent to her. Who acts: rose. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 8

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This rose and the nightingale he wished to give to the princess; and therefore both were put into big silver cases and sent to her.

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**Who acts:** rose · **What happens:** wish, give, put, send · **To what, where:** princess, both, big silver cases, name

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose), 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:pg27200:188:8
# text = This rose and the nightingale he wished to give to the princess; and therefore both were put into big silver cases and sent to her.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | this rose and the nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this rose and the nightingale *not said here* |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient |
| 3 | **put** | past · passive |  | both |  | big silver cases |  | therefore *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **send** | participle |  |  | name |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |

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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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