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title: And the child seated himself by the bedside, and read from the book… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the child seated himself by the bedside, and read from the book of Him who suffered death on the cross to save all men, even who are yet unborn. Who acts: child, book. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 36

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And the child seated himself by the bedside, and read from the book of Him who suffered death on the cross to save all men, even who are yet unborn.

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**Who acts:** child, book · **What happens:** seat, read, suffer, save, be · **To what, where:** child, book, death, cross, men

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, book), 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:pg27200:81:36
# text = And the child seated himself by the bedside, and read from the book of Him who suffered death on the cross to save all men, even who are yet unborn.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | the child | child |  |  |  | by the bedside | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive |  |  |  | the book of child |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | the book of child | death |  | the cross |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | the book of child *not said here* | all men |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | yet | unborn *property* | 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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