--- title: Good fortune seemed to follow him, as it does those who think and ac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Good fortune seemed to follow him, as it does those who think and act for themselves, and who remember the proverb, "Nuts are given to us, but they are not cracked for us." Who acts: Good fortune, confidence. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/155/) [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/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 155 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 155 Good fortune seemed to follow him, as it does those who think and act for themselves, and who remember the proverb, "Nuts are given to us, but they are not cracked for us." **Who acts:** Good fortune, confidence · **What happens:** seem, follow, do, think, act, remember · **To what, where:** fortune, those, proverb, Nuts, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good fortune, confidence), 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:pg27200:55:155 # text = Good fortune seemed to follow him, as it does those who think and act for themselves, and who remember the proverb, "Nuts are given to us, but they are not cracked for us." 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 proverb proverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 parataxis _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 cracked crack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Good fortune | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Good fortune *not said here* | fortune | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | confidence | those | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **act** | present | | | | | | for relations *= relation* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **remember** | present | | the proverb | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent proverb=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Nuts | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient | | 8 | **not** **crack** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Nuts *= nut* | | | | for us | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. 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