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title: They were pardoned and forgiven, although they really had both done… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were pardoned and forgiven, although they really had both done wrong, and deserved to get into trouble; first, because they had let the sucking-pig fall into the water; and, secondly, because they had run away. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 78

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They were pardoned and forgiven, although they really had both done wrong, and deserved to get into trouble; first, because they had let the sucking-pig fall into the water; and, secondly, because they had run away.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** pardon, forgive, do, deserve, get, let · **To what, where:** woman, trouble

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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), 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:pg27200:51:78
# text = They were pardoned and forgiven, although they really had both done wrong, and deserved to get into trouble; first, because they had let the sucking-pig fall into the water; and, secondly, because they had run away.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	pardoned	pardon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	both	both	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
45	away	away	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | past · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | first, secondly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **forgive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | both, wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deserve** | participle | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  | trouble |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
| 6 | **let** | past · perfect · passive |  | woman |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fall=Theme |
| 7 | **suck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **run away** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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