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title: At first the children cried about it; but afterwards, thinking very… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the children cried about it; but afterwards, thinking very probably that the poor lover ought not to be left alone in the world, they ate him up too: but they never forgot the story. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Will
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 41

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At first the children cried about it; but afterwards, thinking very probably that the poor lover ought not to be left alone in the world, they ate him up too: but they never forgot the story.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** cry, think, not leave, eat up, not forget · **To what, where:** poor lover, world, boy, story

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (children), 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:pg27200:202:41
# text = At first the children cried about it; but afterwards, thinking very probably that the poor lover ought not to be left alone in the world, they ate him up too: but they never forgot the story.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the children |  |  |  |  | about wickedness | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, probably *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | ought · passive |  | the poor lover |  | the world |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in world=Location |
| 4 | **eat up** | past | children *= child* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **forget** | past | children *= child* | the story |  |  |  |  | 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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