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title: "We have also some near relations in the home of the potatoes, but h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "We have also some near relations in the home of the potatoes, but higher towards the north than they grew," said the Sloes. " Who acts: We, relations, Sloes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 47

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"We have also some near relations in the home of the potatoes, but higher towards the north than they grew," said the Sloes. "

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**Who acts:** We, relations, Sloes · **What happens:** have, grow, say · **To what, where:** near relations, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, relations, Sloes), 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:pg27200:206:47
# text = "We have also some near relations in the home of the potatoes, but higher towards the north than they grew," said the Sloes. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Sloes	sloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | We | some near relations |  | the home of the potatoes |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | relations *= relation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sloes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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