---
title: Rudy had many to say farewell to, as well as his grandfather. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy had many to say farewell to, as well as his grandfather. Who acts: Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/) / 3

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rudy had many to say farewell to, as well as his grandfather.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** have, say, farewell · **To what, where:** many · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:53:3
# text = Rudy had many to say farewell to, as well as his grandfather.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	farewell	farewell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Rudy | many |  |  |  | Rudy's grandfather *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **farewell** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/4/)
- ↑ back to [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/)