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title: And then he whose father belonged to my calling,--yes, he, the son o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he whose father belonged to my calling,--yes, he, the son of the old image-carver, he whom we ourselves have seen, with his silvery locks and his broad shoulders, whose name is known in all lands;--yes, he was a sculptor, while I am only a carver. Who acts: grandfather, I, my. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 48

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And then he whose father belonged to my calling,--yes, he, the son of the old image-carver, he whom we ourselves have seen, with his silvery locks and his broad shoulders, whose name is known in all lands;--yes, he was a sculptor, while I am only a carver.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, I, my · **What happens:** belong, son, see, know, be, call · **To what, where:** we, name, lands, sculptor, carver · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grandfather, I, my), 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:pg27200:50:48
# text = And then he whose father belonged to my calling,--yes, he, the son of the old image-carver, he whom we ourselves have seen, with his silvery locks and his broad shoulders, whose name is known in all lands;--yes, he was a sculptor, while I am only a carver.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	calling	calling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	ourselves	ourselve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	55	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
60	only	only	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | grandfather |  |  |  | then | to my calling | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **son** |  | grandfather |  |  |  |  | of the old image carver | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  | with grandfather's silvery locks and grandfather's broad shoulders; the old image carver *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | name |  | all lands |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | grandfather | a sculptor and a carver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | I | a carver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **call** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom calling «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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