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title: It pleased them also to strew bread-crumbs for us, and so we have fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It pleased them also to strew bread-crumbs for us, and so we have food, and may consider ourselves provided for. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 29

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It pleased them also to strew bread-crumbs for us, and so we have food, and may consider ourselves provided for.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** please, strew, have, consider, provide · **To what, where:** course, bread crumbs, food, ourselves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg27200:14878`): 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:pg27200:214:29
# text = It pleased them also to strew bread-crumbs for us, and so we have food, and may consider ourselves provided for.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	expl	_	_
2	pleased	please	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	strew	strew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	csubj	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | past |  | course |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **strew** | to-infinitive |  | bread crumbs |  |  |  | for us | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | we | food |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **consider** | may | we *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ourselves=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **provide** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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