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title: People already called them "the betrothed," and at parting the girl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: People already called them "the betrothed," and at parting the girl showed Ib the two nuts, which she had taken care of ever since the time that they lost themselves in the wood; and she told him also that the little wooden shoes he once carved for her when he was a boy, and gave her as a present, h
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 91

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People already called them "the betrothed," and at parting the girl showed Ib the two nuts, which she had taken care of ever since the time that they lost themselves in the wood; and she told him also that the little wooden shoes he once carved for her when he was a boy, and gave her as a present, had been carefully kept in a drawer ever since.

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**Who acts:** People, girl, Ib · **What happens:** call, betroth, part, show, take, lose · **To what, where:** door, girl, Ib, people, wood, little wooden shoes · **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 (People, girl, Ib), 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:pg27200:51:91
# text = People already called them "the betrothed," and at parting the girl showed Ib the two nuts, which she had taken care of ever since the time that they lost themselves in the wood; and she told him also that the little wooden shoes he once carved for her when he was a boy, and gave her as a present, had been carefully kept in a drawer ever since.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	parting	part	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
25	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	51	advmod	_	_
51	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	58	advmod	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
62	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	iobj	_	_
63	as	as	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
67	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
68	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	70	aux:pass	_	_
69	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
70	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	ccomp	_	_
71	in	in	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
74	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	75	advmod	_	_
75	since	since	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | People | door |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **betroth** *in a quote* | participle | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **part** | gerund |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | past | People *not said here* |  | Ib and the two nuts |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ib=Recipient |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ib and the two nuts |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination |
| 6 | **lose** | past | people | people |  | the wood |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  | Ib |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **carve** | past | Ib | the little wooden shoes |  |  |  | for girl; once *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | past | Ib | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **give** | past | girl *not said here* |  | girl |  |  | as a present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 11 | **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | a drawer |  | carefully, since *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in drawer=Location |

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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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