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title: At the same time, the kind-hearted old man who lived by himself in t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time, the kind-hearted old man who lived by himself in the upper storey of the house came in; he led a lonely life, for he had no wife and children; but he loved the children of others very much, and he could tell so many fairy tales and stories, that it was a pleasure to hear him. Who a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 4

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At the same time, the kind-hearted old man who lived by himself in the upper storey of the house came in; he led a lonely life, for he had no wife and children; but he loved the children of others very much, and he could tell so many fairy tales and stories, that it was a pleasure to hear him.

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**Who acts:** hearted old man, man · **What happens:** live, come in, lead, have, love, tell · **To what, where:** upper storey, lonely life, wife, children, many fairy tales, pleasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted old man, man), 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:pg27200:72:4
# text = At the same time, the kind-hearted old man who lived by himself in the upper storey of the house came in; he led a lonely life, for he had no wife and children; but he loved the children of others very much, and he could tell so many fairy tales and stories, that it was a pleasure to hear him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	much	much	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	expl	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	ccomp	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	csubj	_	_
68	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the hearted old man |  |  | the upper storey of the house |  | by man | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storey=Location |
| 2 | **come in** | past | the hearted old man |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | man | a lonely life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | man | no wife and children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 5 | **love** | past | man | the children of others |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | man | many fairy tales and stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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