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title: But for all that it was pleasant, especially for the old people, who… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But for all that it was pleasant, especially for the old people, who watched them with great joy: all that their young ones did suited them. Who acts: quarrelling, young ones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 61

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But for all that it was pleasant, especially for the old people, who watched them with great joy: all that their young ones did suited them.

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**Who acts:** quarrelling, young ones · **What happens:** be, watch, do, suit · **To what, where:** people

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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 (quarrelling, young 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:pg27200:84:61
# text = But for all that it was pleasant, especially for the old people, who watched them with great joy: all that their young ones did suited them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | quarrelling |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past |  | people |  |  |  | for the old people; with great joy | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for people=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | people's young ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suit** | past | quarrelling *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | 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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