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title: Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay v… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay visits, to have sham fights, and to give balls. Who acts: playthings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 17

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Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay visits, to have sham fights, and to give balls.

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**Who acts:** playthings · **What happens:** begin, have, pay, give · **To what, where:** own games, visits, sham fights, balls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (playthings), 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:pg27200:192:17
# text = Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay visits, to have sham fights, and to give balls.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	sham	sham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the playthings |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the playthings *not said here* | playthings's own games |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | visits |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | sham fights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | the playthings *not said here* | balls |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |

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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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