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title: The landlord told them that the king was a very good man, who never… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The landlord told them that the king was a very good man, who never injured any one: but as to his daughter, "Heaven defend us!" Who acts: landlord, king, good man, Heaven. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 25

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The landlord told them that the king was a very good man, who never injured any one: but as to his daughter, "Heaven defend us!"

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**Who acts:** landlord, king, good man, Heaven · **What happens:** tell, be, not injure, defend · **To what, where:** clothes, good man, one, us · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, king, good man, Heaven), 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:pg27200:197:25
# text = The landlord told them that the king was a very good man, who never injured any one: but as to his daughter, "Heaven defend us!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	injured	injure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the landlord |  | clothes |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the king | a good man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **injure** | past | a good man | any one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defend** *in a quote* | infinitive | Heaven |  | us |  |  | as king's daughter | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |

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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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