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title: At the same time, these children were very careful not to go too nea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time, these children were very careful not to go too near the water; indeed, the boy was so afraid of it, that in the summer, while the other children were splashing about in the sea, nothing could entice him to join them. Who acts: children, boy, other children, nothing. A sentence of «
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 8

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At the same time, these children were very careful not to go too near the water; indeed, the boy was so afraid of it, that in the summer, while the other children were splashing about in the sea, nothing could entice him to join them.

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**Who acts:** children, boy, other children, nothing · **What happens:** be, not go, splash about, entice, join · **To what, where:** water, sea, boy, children

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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, boy, other children, nothing), 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:pg27200:202:8
# text = At the same time, these children were very careful not to go too near the water; indeed, the boy was so afraid of it, that in the summer, while the other children were splashing about in the sea, nothing could entice him to join them.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	47	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	entice	entice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this children |  |  |  | time | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | this children *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near water=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | of water; afraid, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **splash about** | past · progressive | the other children |  |  | the sea |  | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 5 | **entice** | could | nothing | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **join** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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