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title: He never played with the other children, and was not seen with them,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He never played with the other children, and was not seen with them, unless his grandfather sent him down to sell his curious workmanship. Who acts: boy, children, grandfather. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 23

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He never played with the other children, and was not seen with them, unless his grandfather sent him down to sell his curious workmanship.

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**Who acts:** boy, children, grandfather · **What happens:** not play, not see, send down, sell · **To what, where:** boy, curious workmanship

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, children, grandfather), 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:pg27200:52:23
# text = He never played with the other children, and was not seen with them, unless his grandfather sent him down to sell his curious workmanship.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | with the other children | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · passive | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **send down** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | boy's grandfather | boy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive | boy's grandfather *not said here* | boy's curious workmanship |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workmanship=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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