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title: They wanted to go out and woo the King's daughter; for the maiden in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They wanted to go out and woo the King's daughter; for the maiden in question had publicly announced that she would choose for her husband that youth who could arrange his words best. Who acts: men, proprietor, youth, husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 2

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They wanted to go out and woo the King's daughter; for the maiden in question had publicly announced that she would choose for her husband that youth who could arrange his words best.

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**Who acts:** men, proprietor, youth, husband · **What happens:** want, go out, woo, announce, choose, arrange · **To what, where:** daughter, question, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, proprietor, youth, husband), 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:pg27200:28:2
# text = They wanted to go out and woo the King's daughter; for the maiden in question had publicly announced that she would choose for her husband that youth who could arrange his words best.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	det	_	_
29	youth	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **woo** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | the King's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past · perfect |  |  |  | question |  | publicly *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **choose** | would | proprietor |  |  |  |  | for proprietor's husband  that youth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for husband=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **arrange** | could | that youth | husband's words |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Product |
| 7 | **word** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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