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title: The young cousin, whom they had brought with them, was dressed in wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young cousin, whom they had brought with them, was dressed in white from head to foot; he had golden hair and golden whiskers, large enough to be divided amongst three gentlemen; and he began immediately to pay the greatest attention to Babette. Who acts: Clarens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of H
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 20

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The young cousin, whom they had brought with them, was dressed in white from head to foot; he had golden hair and golden whiskers, large enough to be divided amongst three gentlemen; and he began immediately to pay the greatest attention to Babette.

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**Who acts:** Clarens · **What happens:** bring, dress, have, divide, begin, pay · **To what, where:** young cousin, white, golden hair, greatest attention

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clarens), 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:pg27200:61:20
# text = The young cousin, whom they had brought with them, was dressed in white from head to foot; he had golden hair and golden whiskers, large enough to be divided amongst three gentlemen; and he began immediately to pay the greatest attention to Babette.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
34	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
41	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the young cousin |  |  |  | with daughters *= daughter* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the young cousin |  | white |  | from head to foot | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | Clarens | golden hair and golden whiskers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 4 | **divide** | to-infinitive · passive | Clarens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amongst three gentlemen | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Clarens |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Clarens *not said here* | the greatest attention |  |  |  | to Babette | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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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