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title: A golden treasure had been hidden in the heart and soul of the poor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A golden treasure had been hidden in the heart and soul of the poor child, who had beaten the roll as a drummer--a roll of victory for those who had been ready to retreat. Who acts: poor child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 174

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A golden treasure had been hidden in the heart and soul of the poor child, who had beaten the roll as a drummer--a roll of victory for those who had been ready to retreat.

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**Who acts:** poor child · **What happens:** hide, beat, be, retreat, roll · **To what, where:** golden treasure, heart, roll, victory

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child), 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:pg27200:39:174
# text = A golden treasure had been hidden in the heart and soul of the poor child, who had beaten the roll as a drummer--a roll of victory for those who had been ready to retreat.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drummer	drummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	retreat	retreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive |  | a golden treasure |  | the heart and soul of the poor child and a roll of victory for those |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in heart=Location |
| 2 | **beat** | past · perfect | the poor child | the roll |  |  |  | as a drummer | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roll=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **retreat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **roll** |  |  | victory |  |  |  | for those | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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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