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title: The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this. Who acts: second person, nature. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 102

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The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this.

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**Who acts:** second person, nature · **What happens:** be, propose, carry, want · **To what, where:** beetle, such good specimens

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second person, nature), 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:pg27200:8:102
# text = The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the second person and a scholar |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | the beetle |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | past | nature | such good specimens |  |  |  | as this | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme as this=Attribute |

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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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