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title: Soon afterwards the children and grandchildren came, for they knew v… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon afterwards the children and grandchildren came, for they knew very well that it was the golden wedding-day; they had already wished them joy and happiness in the morning, but the old people had forgotten it, although they remembered things so well that had passed many, many years ago. Who acts:
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 57

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Soon afterwards the children and grandchildren came, for they knew very well that it was the golden wedding-day; they had already wished them joy and happiness in the morning, but the old people had forgotten it, although they remembered things so well that had passed many, many years ago.

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**Who acts:** children, hand, old people, people · **What happens:** come, know, be, wish, forget, remember · **To what, where:** golden wedding day, children, hand, things

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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 (children, hand, old people, people), 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:pg27200:72:57
# text = Soon afterwards the children and grandchildren came, for they knew very well that it was the golden wedding-day; they had already wished them joy and happiness in the morning, but the old people had forgotten it, although they remembered things so well that had passed many, many years ago.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	already	already	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
52	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
56	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the children and grandchildren |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | hand | the golden wedding day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past · perfect · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | past · perfect | the old people | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remember** | past | people | things |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 7 | **pass** | past · perfect | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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