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title: My mother could make fishermen's nets, for which there was a great d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother could make fishermen's nets, for which there was a great demand here in the bay; and we lived a long time by the side of the sea, the beautiful sea, that had a taste like tears, and in its colors reminded me of the stag that wept red tears; for sometimes its waters were red, and sometimes 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 73

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My mother could make fishermen's nets, for which there was a great demand here in the bay; and we lived a long time by the side of the sea, the beautiful sea, that had a taste like tears, and in its colors reminded me of the stag that wept red tears; for sometimes its waters were red, and sometimes green or blue.

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**Who acts:** mother, we, beautiful sea, stag, waters · **What happens:** make, be, live, have, remind, weep · **To what, where:** nets, great demand, bay, taste, me, colors

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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 (mother, we, beautiful sea, stag), 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:pg27200:36:73
# text = My mother could make fishermen's nets, for which there was a great demand here in the bay; and we lived a long time by the side of the sea, the beautiful sea, that had a taste like tears, and in its colors reminded me of the stag that wept red tears; for sometimes its waters were red, and sometimes green or blue.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
49	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
50	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
59	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
60	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	64	advmod	_	_
61	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nsubj	_	_
63	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
67	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	68	advmod	_	_
68	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	conj	_	_
69	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | My mother | fishermen's nets |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past | My mother *not said here* | a great demand |  | the bay; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | we |  |  |  | time | by the side of the sea | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | the beautiful sea | a taste |  |  |  | like tears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
| 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | past |  |  | me | arm's colors |  | of the stag | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of stag=Topic |
| 6 | **weep** | past | the stag | red tears |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | arm's waters |  |  |  |  | red, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | arm's waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | 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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