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title: The gardener's little son and his playfellow had come into the hotho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gardener's little son and his playfellow had come into the hothouse, and, seeing the beetle, wanted to have some fun with him. Who acts: little son. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 116

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The gardener's little son and his playfellow had come into the hothouse, and, seeing the beetle, wanted to have some fun with him.

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**Who acts:** little son · **What happens:** come, see, want, have · **To what, where:** hothouse, beetle, fun

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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 (little son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:552`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:8:116
# text = The gardener's little son and his playfellow had come into the hothouse, and, seeing the beetle, wanted to have some fun with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the gardener's little son and son's playfellow |  |  | the hothouse |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hothouse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the beetle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beetle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | past | the gardener's little son and son's playfellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the gardener's little son and son's playfellow *not said here* | some fun |  |  |  | with beetle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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