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title: Then the daughter-in-law kissed the old grandfather, and led him to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the daughter-in-law kissed the old grandfather, and led him to a large arm-chair by the table; and she, and her husband, who was the son of the old man and the father of the little boy who lay in bed, sat down to supper with him. Who acts: daughter, husband, little boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 44

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Then the daughter-in-law kissed the old grandfather, and led him to a large arm-chair by the table; and she, and her husband, who was the son of the old man and the father of the little boy who lay in bed, sat down to supper with him.

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**Who acts:** daughter, husband, little boy · **What happens:** kiss, lead, be, lie, sit down, supper · **To what, where:** old grandfather, grandfather, large arm chair, son, bed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, husband, little boy), 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:pg27200:50:44
# text = Then the daughter-in-law kissed the old grandfather, and led him to a large arm-chair by the table; and she, and her husband, who was the son of the old man and the father of the little boy who lay in bed, sat down to supper with him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
53	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
54	down	down	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	supper	supper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the daughter and law | the old grandfather |  |  | then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the daughter and law *not said here* | grandfather |  | a large arm chair by the table |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chair=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | daughter's husband | the son |  |  |  | of the old man and the father of the little boy | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the little boy |  |  | bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **supper** | to-infinitive | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with husband | 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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