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title: They were all anxious to see this wonderful soldier who had travelle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all anxious to see this wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish; but he was not at all proud. Who acts: soldiers, wonderful soldier, fish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 64

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They were all anxious to see this wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish; but he was not at all proud.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, wonderful soldier, fish · **What happens:** be, see, travell, not be · **To what, where:** wonderful soldier, all

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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 (soldiers, wonderful soldier, fish), 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:pg27200:192:64
# text = They were all anxious to see this wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish; but he was not at all proud.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
24	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	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 | **is** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | all, anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | this wonderful soldier |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus |
| 3 | **travell** | past · perfect | this wonderful soldier |  |  |  |  | inside a fish; about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | fish |  |  | all |  | proud *property* | tree rules |

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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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