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title: They had never been away from the garden; but they knew that another… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had never been away from the garden; but they knew that another place once existed in the world, called the Duke's Palace Castle, in which some of their relations had been boiled till they became black, and were then laid on a silver dish; but what was done afterwards they did not know. Who act
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 9

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They had never been away from the garden; but they knew that another place once existed in the world, called the Duke's Palace Castle, in which some of their relations had been boiled till they became black, and were then laid on a silver dish; but what was done afterwards they did not know.

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**Who acts:** snails, place · **What happens:** have, not be, know, exist, call, boil · **To what, where:** garden, world, some, silver dish · **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 (snails, place), 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:pg27200:48:9
# text = They had never been away from the garden; but they knew that another place once existed in the world, called the Duke's Palace Castle, in which some of their relations had been boiled till they became black, and were then laid on a silver dish; but what was done afterwards they did not know.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
27	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
38	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
46	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
56	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | snails *= snail* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  | the garden |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | snails *= snail* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **exist** | past | another place |  |  | the world |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **boil** | past · perfect · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **become** | past | snails *= snail* |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **lay** | past · passive | another place *not said here* |  |  | a silver dish | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on dish=Destination |
| 9 | **do** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 10 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | snails *= snail* |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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