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title: And in this manner many of the young ladies and gentlemen were betro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And in this manner many of the young ladies and gentlemen were betrothed to each other: it was, of course, what they wanted, and indeed what they lived for. Who acts: blood, gentlemen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 59

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And in this manner many of the young ladies and gentlemen were betrothed to each other: it was, of course, what they wanted, and indeed what they lived for.

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**Who acts:** blood, gentlemen · **What happens:** betroth, be, want, live · **To what, where:** many, each, manner, course

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, gentlemen), 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:pg27200:84:59
# text = And in this manner many of the young ladies and gentlemen were betrothed to each other: it was, of course, what they wanted, and indeed what they lived for.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obl	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	parataxis	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betroth** | past · passive |  | many of the young ladies and gentlemen | each | this manner |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to each=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | blood |  |  |  |  | of course | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | past | gentlemen *= gentleman* | course |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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