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title: The younger of these men had brought with him from home his best, hi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The younger of these men had brought with him from home his best, his dearest treasure--a Bible, which his grandmother had given him on his departure. Who acts: eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 12

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The younger of these men had brought with him from home his best, his dearest treasure--a Bible, which his grandmother had given him on his departure.

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** bring, give, treasure, depart · **To what, where:** younger men, grandmother, eye, departure

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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:pg27200:205:12
# text = The younger of these men had brought with him from home his best, his dearest treasure--a Bible, which his grandmother had given him on his departure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the younger men |  |  |  | with eye | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | eye's grandmother | eye | eye's departure |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treasure** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **depart** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «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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