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title: How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than merely hunting the stag and emptying the wine-cup. Who acts: bearing, castle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 6

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How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than merely hunting the stag and emptying the wine-cup.

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**Who acts:** bearing, castle · **What happens:** be, boast, hunt, empty · **To what, where:** stag, wine cup

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bearing, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14627`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:212:6
# text = How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than merely hunting the stag and emptying the wine-cup.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	emptying	empty	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | castle's bearing |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | castle |  |  |  |  | of royal blood | tree rules |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | could | castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of noble deeds | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | castle *not said here* | the stag |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme |
| 5 | **empty** | gerund | castle *not said here* | the wine cup |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cup=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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