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title: Then the woman promised to lead the children to the right path, that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the woman promised to lead the children to the right path, that they might find their way home: and they went forward certainly in quite another direction to the one they meant to take; therefore no one ought to speak against the woman, and say that she wanted to steal the children. Who acts: w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 76

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Then the woman promised to lead the children to the right path, that they might find their way home: and they went forward certainly in quite another direction to the one they meant to take; therefore no one ought to speak against the woman, and say that she wanted to steal the children.

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**Who acts:** woman, one, child · **What happens:** promise, lead, find, go, mean, take · **To what, where:** children, right path, way, direction, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, one, child), 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:pg27200:51:76
# text = Then the woman promised to lead the children to the right path, that they might find their way home: and they went forward certainly in quite another direction to the one they meant to take; therefore no one ought to speak against the woman, and say that she wanted to steal the children.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
45	against	against	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	ccomp	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the woman |  |  |  | then |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* | the children |  | the right path |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to path=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | might | woman | woman's way |  |  |  | home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past | woman |  |  | another direction to the one |  | certainly, forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 5 | **mean** | past | woman | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | ought | no one |  |  |  |  | against the woman; therefore *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **want** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **steal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme |

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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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