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title: Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large sharp knife, like that with which the girl had cut the tulips. Who acts: two little boys, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 42

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Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large sharp knife, like that with which the girl had cut the tulips.

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**Who acts:** two little boys, one · **What happens:** come out, have, cut · **To what, where:** garden, large sharp knife, girl

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two little boys, one), 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:pg27200:20:42
# text = Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large sharp knife, like that with which the girl had cut the tulips.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | two little boys | the garden |  |  | then |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient garden=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | one of boys | a large sharp knife |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  | like that | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient tulip=Result with which=Instrument |

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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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