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title: They had sworn brotherhood in their youth, and the most beautiful an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had sworn brotherhood in their youth, and the most beautiful and virtuous maiden in the neighborhood was chosen to perform the act of consecration upon this bond of friendship. Who acts: eyes, consecration. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 32

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They had sworn brotherhood in their youth, and the most beautiful and virtuous maiden in the neighborhood was chosen to perform the act of consecration upon this bond of friendship.

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**Who acts:** eyes, consecration · **What happens:** swear, choose, perform, act, bond · **To what, where:** brotherhood, youth, neighborhood, act, friendship

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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 (eyes, consecration), 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:pg27200:36:32
# text = They had sworn brotherhood in their youth, and the most beautiful and virtuous maiden in the neighborhood was chosen to perform the act of consecration upon this bond of friendship.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	brotherhood	brotherhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	consecration	consecration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | brotherhood |  | eyes's youth |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent brotherhood=Eventuality |
| 2 | **choose** | past · passive |  |  |  | the neighborhood |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  | the act of consecration |  |  |  | upon this bond of friendship | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 4 | **act** |  | consecration |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **bond** |  |  | friendship |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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