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title: John thought of his father's grave, which he knew at last would look… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: John thought of his father's grave, which he knew at last would look like these, as he was not there to weed and attend to it. Who acts: John. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 47

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John thought of his father's grave, which he knew at last would look like these, as he was not there to weed and attend to it.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** think, know, look, not be, weed, attend · **To what, where:** grave, churchyard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg27200:196:47
# text = John thought of his father's grave, which he knew at last would look like these, as he was not there to weed and attend to it.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	weed	weed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | John |  |  |  |  | of John's father's grave | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | past | John | John's father's grave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | would |  |  |  |  |  | like these | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | John |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **weed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **attend** | infinitive |  |  | churchyard |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to it=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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