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title: The youngest of them are quite satisfied with "kribble, krabble," or… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest of them are quite satisfied with "kribble, krabble," or such nonsense, and think it very grand; but the elder ones want something with a deeper meaning, or at least something about their own family. Who acts: youngest, elder ones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 2

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The youngest of them are quite satisfied with "kribble, krabble," or such nonsense, and think it very grand; but the elder ones want something with a deeper meaning, or at least something about their own family.

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**Who acts:** youngest, elder ones · **What happens:** be, think, want · **To what, where:** nonsense, something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, elder ones), 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:pg27200:83:2
# text = The youngest of them are quite satisfied with "kribble, krabble," or such nonsense, and think it very grand; but the elder ones want something with a deeper meaning, or at least something about their own family.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	kribble	kribble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	krabble	krabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	nmod	_	_
39	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	appos	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the youngest of storks |  |  |  |  | with kribble and krabble or such nonsense; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | nonsense |  |  |  | grand *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | the elder ones | something |  |  |  | with a deeper meaning | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=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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