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title: They have great love for flowers, for butterflies, and for mankind;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They have great love for flowers, for butterflies, and for mankind; and from among the latter they had chosen little Rudy. " Who acts: Alps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 96

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They have great love for flowers, for butterflies, and for mankind; and from among the latter they had chosen little Rudy. "

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**Who acts:** Alps · **What happens:** have, choose · **To what, where:** great love, little Rudy, latter

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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 (Alps), 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:pg27200:52:96
# text = They have great love for flowers, for butterflies, and for mankind; and from among the latter they had chosen little Rudy. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Alps *= alp* | great love |  |  |  | for flowers and butterflies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | past · perfect | Alps *= alp* | little Rudy |  | the latter |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rudy=Theme from latter=Source |

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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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