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title: This is our fatherland, to which we are drawn by loving ties; and he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This is our fatherland, to which we are drawn by loving ties; and here we have found you, our dear little sister. Who acts: This, loving ties, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 101

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This is our fatherland, to which we are drawn by loving ties; and here we have found you, our dear little sister.

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**Who acts:** This, loving ties, we · **What happens:** be, draw, find · **To what, where:** fatherland, we, you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (This, loving ties, we), 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:pg27200:208:101
# text = This is our fatherland, to which we are drawn by loving ties; and here we have found you, our dear little sister.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | our fatherland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | present · passive | loving ties | we |  | our fatherland |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect | we | you |  | here |  | our dear little sister *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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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