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title: But as the young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes, they concluded that the castle had fallen into decay, and that all the people in the world were dead; and as nobody contradicted them, they thought they must be right. Who acts: children, castle, people, nobody. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 55

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But as the young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes, they concluded that the castle had fallen into decay, and that all the people in the world were dead; and as nobody contradicted them, they thought they must be right.

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**Who acts:** children, castle, people, nobody · **What happens:** not boil, lay, conclude, fall, be, contradict · **To what, where:** young ones, silver dishes, decay, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, castle, people, nobody), 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:pg27200:48:55
# text = But as the young ones were never boiled or laid in silver dishes, they concluded that the castle had fallen into decay, and that all the people in the world were dead; and as nobody contradicted them, they thought they must be right.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	39	nsubj	_	_
39	contradicted	contradict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **boil** | past · passive |  | the young ones |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  | silver dishes |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dish=Destination |
| 3 | **conclude** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | the castle |  |  |  |  | into decay *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into decay=Result |
| 5 | **is** | past | all people in the world |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **contradict** | past | nobody | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | must | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | right *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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