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title: John proposed directly that they should carry the old woman home to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: John proposed directly that they should carry the old woman home to her cottage; but the stranger opened his knapsack and took out a box, in which he said he had a salve that would quickly make her leg well and strong again, so that she would be able to walk home herself, as if her leg had never bee
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 90

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John proposed directly that they should carry the old woman home to her cottage; but the stranger opened his knapsack and took out a box, in which he said he had a salve that would quickly make her leg well and strong again, so that she would be able to walk home herself, as if her leg had never been broken.

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**Who acts:** John, twigs, stranger, salve, woman · **What happens:** propose, carry, open, take out, say, have · **To what, where:** old woman, cottage, knapsack, box, salve, leg · **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, twigs, stranger, salve), 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:pg27200:196:90
# text = John proposed directly that they should carry the old woman home to her cottage; but the stranger opened his knapsack and took out a box, in which he said he had a salve that would quickly make her leg well and strong again, so that she would be able to walk home herself, as if her leg had never been broken.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
45	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	cop	_	_
52	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	home	home	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
58	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
59	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
63	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
64	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	65	aux:pass	_	_
65	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | John |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | should | twigs *= twig* | the old woman |  | woman's cottage |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to cottage=Destination |
| 3 | **open** | past | the stranger | John's knapsack |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knapsack=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | past | the stranger *not said here* | a box |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | past | John | a salve |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salve=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | would | a salve | woman's leg |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product |
| 8 | **is** | would | woman |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **walk** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **break** | past · perfect · passive |  | woman's leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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