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title: For on this day a son and heir has been born, and mother and child a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For on this day a son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 2

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For on this day a son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** bear, do · **To what, where:** son

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg27200:70:2
# text = For on this day a son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · perfect · passive |  | a son and heir |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present · progressive | mother and child |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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