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title: They received him kindly, and brought him many greetings from their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They received him kindly, and brought him many greetings from their friends at Interlachen. Who acts: miller. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 13

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They received him kindly, and brought him many greetings from their friends at Interlachen.

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**Who acts:** miller · **What happens:** receive, bring · **To what, where:** Rudy, many greetings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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:pg27200:57:13
# text = They received him kindly, and brought him many greetings from their friends at Interlachen.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | miller | Rudy |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | miller *not said here* | many greetings | Rudy |  |  | from miller's friends at Interlachen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination greeting=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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