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title: We dried her clothes as well as we were able, and remained on the wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We dried her clothes as well as we were able, and remained on the water till they were dry; for we did not wish it to be known what a fright we had had, nor the danger which our little adopted sister had incurred, in whose life Aphtanides had now a part. Who acts: We, waters, little adopted sister, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 80

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We dried her clothes as well as we were able, and remained on the water till they were dry; for we did not wish it to be known what a fright we had had, nor the danger which our little adopted sister had incurred, in whose life Aphtanides had now a part.

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**Who acts:** We, waters, little adopted sister, Aphtanides · **What happens:** dry, be, remain, not wish, know, have · **To what, where:** clothes, water, splash, fright, danger, life

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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, waters, little adopted sister, Aphtanides), 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:pg27200:36:80
# text = We dried her clothes as well as we were able, and remained on the water till they were dry; for we did not wish it to be known what a fright we had had, nor the danger which our little adopted sister had incurred, in whose life Aphtanides had now a part.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
31	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	33	det	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	incurred	incur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | past | We | Anastasia's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | We *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | waters *= water* |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | we | splash |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 6 | **know** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* | what fright |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: fright=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** | past · perfect | we | what fright *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Patient |
| 8 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **incur** | past · perfect | our little adopted sister | the danger |  | life |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **have** | past | Aphtanides | a part |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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