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title: The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a sta… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side. Who acts: eleven brothers, princes. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 2

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The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side.

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**Who acts:** eleven brothers, princes · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** princes, school

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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 (eleven brothers, princes), 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:pg27200:208:2
# text = The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the eleven brothers | princes and a sword by Eliza's side |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | princes and a sword by Eliza's side *not said here* |  |  | school |  | with a star on Eliza's breast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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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