--- title: With the child they were successful, but not with the mother; so the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: With the child they were successful, but not with the mother; so the old grandfather received his daughter's little son into his house an orphan,--a little boy who laughed more than he cried; but it seemed as if laughter had left him in the cold ice-world into which he had fallen, where, as the Swis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/) / 69 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 69 With the child they were successful, but not with the mother; so the old grandfather received his daughter's little son into his house an orphan,--a little boy who laughed more than he cried; but it seemed as if laughter had left him in the cold ice-world into which he had fallen, where, as the Swiss peasants say, the souls of the lost are confined till the judgment-day. **Who acts:** children, old grandfather, little boy, grandfather, it, Swiss peasants · **What happens:** be, receive, laugh, cry, seem, leave · **To what, where:** little son, house, laughter, cold ice world, souls · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (children, old grandfather, little boy, grandfather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:52:69 # text = With the child they were successful, but not with the mother; so the old grandfather received his daughter's little son into his house an orphan,--a little boy who laughed more than he cried; but it seemed as if laughter had left him in the cold ice-world into which he had fallen, where, as the Swiss peasants say, the souls of the lost are confined till the judgment-day. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 successful successful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 orphan orphan NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 37 than than SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 if if SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 advcl _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 52 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 53 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 56 into into ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 60 obl _ _ 58 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 59 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 60 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 64 as as SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 66 Swiss Swiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ _ 68 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obj _ _ 72 of of SCONJ IN _ 76 mark _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 74 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 76 advcl _ _ 75 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 76 aux:pass _ _ 76 confined confine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 71 acl _ _ 77 till till ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 79 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 80 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 79 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 81 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | children *= child* | | | | | with the child; successful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **receive** | past | the old grandfather | grandfather's daughter's little son | | grandfather's house a orphan | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | past | a little boy | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | grandfather | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** | past | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | | laughter | | the cold ice world | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | | 7 | **fall** | past · perfect | grandfather | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Swiss peasants | the souls | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soul=Topic | | 9 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **confine** | present · passive | | the souls *not said here* | | | day | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/70/) - ↑ back to [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/)