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title: But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him to open the book with the dried-up plants in it, he would sometimes sit for a whole day looking at this or that plant, while frequently the tears rolled over his cheeks. Who acts: we, student, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 11

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But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him to open the book with the dried-up plants in it, he would sometimes sit for a whole day looking at this or that plant, while frequently the tears rolled over his cheeks.

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**Who acts:** we, student, tears · **What happens:** succeed, bring, prevail, open, dry up, sit · **To what, where:** student, book, cheeks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, student, tears), 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:pg27200:29:11
# text = But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him to open the book with the dried-up plants in it, he would sometimes sit for a whole day looking at this or that plant, while frequently the tears rolled over his cheeks.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | we *not said here* |  | student |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 3 | **prevail** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon student | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive |  | the book |  |  |  | with the dried plants in book | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent book=Patient with plant=Instrument |
| 5 | **dry up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **sit** | would | student |  |  |  | day | sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **look** | gerund | student *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme |
| 8 | **roll** | past | the tears |  |  | student's cheeks |  | frequently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cheek=Trajectory |

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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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