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title: Waldemar Daa wanted gold, and the admiral wished for the proud black… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Waldemar Daa wanted gold, and the admiral wished for the proud black horses; therefore he praised them so much. Who acts: Waldemar, admiral, deal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 62

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Waldemar Daa wanted gold, and the admiral wished for the proud black horses; therefore he praised them so much.

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**Who acts:** Waldemar, admiral, deal · **What happens:** want, wish, praise · **To what, where:** gold, Waldemar

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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 (Waldemar, admiral, deal), 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:pg27200:212:62
# text = Waldemar Daa wanted gold, and the admiral wished for the proud black horses; therefore he praised them so much.
1	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Daa	Daa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Waldemar | gold |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | the admiral |  |  |  |  | for the proud black horses | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for horse=Theme |
| 3 | **praise** | past | deal | Waldemar |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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