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title: "'Oh yes; and now they have all grown up, and have become useful mem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Oh yes; and now they have all grown up, and have become useful members of society, whom everybody cares for.' Who acts: Mary, everybody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 52

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"'Oh yes; and now they have all grown up, and have become useful members of society, whom everybody cares for.'

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**Who acts:** Mary, everybody · **What happens:** grow up, become, care · **To what, where:** useful members

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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 (Mary, everybody), 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:pg27200:72:52
# text = "'Oh yes; and now they have all grown up, and have become useful members of society, whom everybody cares for.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Mary |  |  |  | now | all *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Mary *not said here* | useful members of society |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **care** *in a quote* | present | everybody | useful members of society |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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