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title: The mother wept; the father in fancy saw him "famous;" the town musi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother wept; the father in fancy saw him "famous;" the town musician was of opinion that he ought not to go to war, but should stay at home and learn music. Who acts: mother, father, town musician. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 57

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The mother wept; the father in fancy saw him "famous;" the town musician was of opinion that he ought not to go to war, but should stay at home and learn music.

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**Who acts:** mother, father, town musician · **What happens:** weep, see, be, not go, stay, learn · **To what, where:** son, war, home, music

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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 (mother, father, town musician), 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:pg27200:39:57
# text = The mother wept; the father in fancy saw him "famous;" the town musician was of opinion that he ought not to go to war, but should stay at home and learn music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | the father in fancy | son |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the town musician |  |  |  |  | of opinion | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** | ought | father |  |  | war |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **stay** | should | the mother *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 6 | **learn** | infinitive | the mother *not said here* | music |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Topic |

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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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