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title: "My lover would be ready to give up his engagement," said the younge… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "My lover would be ready to give up his engagement," said the youngest, who was betrothed to a paver's hammer; and the hammer is the thing which drives great piles into the earth, like a machine, and therefore does on a large scale what ten maidens effect in a similar way. " Who acts: lover, hammer,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 10

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"My lover would be ready to give up his engagement," said the youngest, who was betrothed to a paver's hammer; and the hammer is the thing which drives great piles into the earth, like a machine, and therefore does on a large scale what ten maidens effect in a similar way. "

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**Who acts:** lover, hammer, thing, news · **What happens:** be, give up, say, betroth, drive, do · **To what, where:** engagement, hammer, thing, great piles, earth, large scale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, hammer, thing, news), 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:pg27200:200:10
# text = "My lover would be ready to give up his engagement," said the youngest, who was betrothed to a paver's hammer; and the hammer is the thing which drives great piles into the earth, like a machine, and therefore does on a large scale what ten maidens effect in a similar way. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	paver	paver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	conj	_	_
53	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	compound	_	_
55	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | would | My lover |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | My lover *not said here* | news's engagement |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Source |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **betroth** | past · passive |  |  | a paver's hammer |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hammer=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the hammer | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drive** | present | the thing | great piles |  | the earth |  | like a machine | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pile=Theme into earth=Trajectory |
| 7 | **do** | present |  |  |  | a large scale |  | therefore *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **engage** *in a quote* |  | news |  |  |  |  |  | nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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