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title: Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own beautiful flower to have worn this one, presented by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden. Who acts: Each. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 17

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Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own beautiful flower to have worn this one, presented by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden.

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**Who acts:** Each · **What happens:** give, wear, present · **To what, where:** own beautiful flower, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:189:17
# text = Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own beautiful flower to have worn this one, presented by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · perfect | Each | man's own beautiful flower |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive · perfect | Each *not said here* | this one |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source |
| 3 | **present** | participle |  | this one *not said here* |  |  |  | by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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