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title: Then they sang songs, and John remembered that he had learnt those p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they sang songs, and John remembered that he had learnt those pretty songs when he was a little boy. Who acts: deal, 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 every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 76

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Then they sang songs, and John remembered that he had learnt those pretty songs when he was a little boy.

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**Who acts:** deal, John · **What happens:** sing, remember, learn, be · **To what, where:** songs, pretty songs, little boy · **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 (deal, 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:pg27200:196:76
# text = Then they sang songs, and John remembered that he had learnt those pretty songs when he was a little boy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | deal | songs |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | past · perfect | John | that pretty songs |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | John | a little boy |  |  |  |  | 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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