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title: He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradua… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled. Who acts: fortune. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 5

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He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled.

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**Who acts:** fortune · **What happens:** bring, conquer, accumulate, equall · **To what, where:** enormous wealth, conquered towns, residence riches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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:pg27200:207:5
# text = He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	equalled	equall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | fortune | enormous wealth |  | the conquered towns |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from town=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **conquer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accumulate** | participle |  |  |  | fortune's residence riches |  | gradually *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **equall** | could · passive |  | fortune's residence riches |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | 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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