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title: We all three offered a silent prayer, and then she said to us, "Will… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We all three offered a silent prayer, and then she said to us, "Will you be friends in life and in death?" Who acts: We, countenance, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 120

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We all three offered a silent prayer, and then she said to us, "Will you be friends in life and in death?"

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**Who acts:** We, countenance, you · **What happens:** offer, say, be · **To what, where:** silent prayer, us, friends, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, countenance, you), 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:pg27200:36:120
# text = We all three offered a silent prayer, and then she said to us, "Will you be friends in life and in death?"
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | We | a silent prayer |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | countenance |  | us |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | you | friends and death |  | life |  |  | tree rules |

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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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