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title: When she had been there about a year, her patroness said to her, "Yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had been there about a year, her patroness said to her, "You ought to go, for once, and see your parents, Inge." Who acts: child, patroness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 11

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When she had been there about a year, her patroness said to her, "You ought to go, for once, and see your parents, Inge."

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**Who acts:** child, patroness · **What happens:** be, say, go, see · **To what, where:** child, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, patroness), 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:pg27200:37:11
# text = When she had been there about a year, her patroness said to her, "You ought to go, for once, and see your parents, Inge."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	patroness	patroness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | child |  |  |  | year | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child's patroness |  | child |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | ought | child |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | child *not said here* | your parents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |

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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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