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title: The neighbors parted with tears, the children wept sadly; but their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 47

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The neighbors parted with tears, the children wept sadly; but their parents promised that they should write to each other at least once a year.

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**Who acts:** neighbors, children, parents · **What happens:** part, weep, promise, write · **To what, where:** each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (neighbors, children, parents), 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:pg27200:202:47
# text = The neighbors parted with tears, the children wept sadly; but their parents promised that they should write to each other at least once a year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	obl	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** | past | the neighbors |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tear=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **weep** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | neighbors's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **write** | should | neighbors *= neighbor* |  | each |  |  | once *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |

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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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