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title: For the proprietor had really three sons, though nobody counted the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For the proprietor had really three sons, though nobody counted the third with his brothers, because he was not so learned as they, and indeed he was generally known as "Jack the Dullard." Who acts: nobody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 13

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For the proprietor had really three sons, though nobody counted the third with his brothers, because he was not so learned as they, and indeed he was generally known as "Jack the Dullard."

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**Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** have, count, not learn, know · **To what, where:** three sons, third, chance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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:pg27200:28:13
# text = For the proprietor had really three sons, though nobody counted the third with his brothers, because he was not so learned as they, and indeed he was generally known as "Jack the Dullard."
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Dullard	Dullard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | three sons |  |  |  | for the proprietor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | past | nobody | the third |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **learn** | past · passive |  | chance |  |  |  | as sons *= son* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **know** | past · passive |  | chance |  |  |  | as Jack; generally, indeed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as jack=Attribute |

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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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