---
title: Her cousins were two good-tempered boys, whose names were James and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her cousins were two good-tempered boys, whose names were James and Adolphus. Who acts: cousins, names, James. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/140/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/) / 140

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 140

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her cousins were two good-tempered boys, whose names were James and Adolphus.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** cousins, names, James · **What happens:** temper, be, name · **To what, where:** two tempered boys, James

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousins, names, James), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:73:140
# text = Her cousins were two good-tempered boys, whose names were James and Adolphus.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Adolphus	Adolphus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Ida's cousins | two tempered boys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | James and Adolphus's names | James and Adolphus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | James and Adolphus |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/139/)
- next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/141/)
- ↑ back to [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/)