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title: He searched further, and found more valuable treasures, which Ib sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He searched further, and found more valuable treasures, which Ib showed to the clergyman, who explained their value to him. Who acts: sun, valuable treasures, clergyman, treasures. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 163

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He searched further, and found more valuable treasures, which Ib showed to the clergyman, who explained their value to him.

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**Who acts:** sun, valuable treasures, clergyman, treasures · **What happens:** search, find, show, explain, value · **To what, where:** valuable treasures, clergyman, value, sun

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, valuable treasures, clergyman, treasures), 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:pg27200:51:163
# text = He searched further, and found more valuable treasures, which Ib showed to the clergyman, who explained their value to him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | valuable treasures |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |
| 3 | **show** | past | valuable treasures |  | the clergyman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to clergyman=Recipient |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the clergyman | treasures's value | sun |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent value=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **value** |  | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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