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title: Then, how happy the princes were at meeting their little sister agai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, how happy the princes were at meeting their little sister again, for they recognized her, although she had grown so tall and beautiful. Who acts: happy princes, princes, sister. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 91

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Then, how happy the princes were at meeting their little sister again, for they recognized her, although she had grown so tall and beautiful.

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**Who acts:** happy princes, princes, sister · **What happens:** meet, recognize, grow · **To what, where:** little sister, sister

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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 (happy princes, princes, sister), 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:pg27200:208:91
# text = Then, how happy the princes were at meeting their little sister again, for they recognized her, although she had grown so tall and beautiful.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · progressive | the happy princes | princes's little sister |  |  | then; again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | princes *= prince* | sister |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | sister |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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