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title: But for you and the youngsters the two young princesses would never… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But for you and the youngsters the two young princesses would never have seen Egypt again, and the recovery of the old man would not have been effected. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 7

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But for you and the youngsters the two young princesses would never have seen Egypt again, and the recovery of the old man would not have been effected.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** not see, not affect, recover · **To what, where:** you, recovery

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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:pg27200:88:7
# text = But for you and the youngsters the two young princesses would never have seen Egypt again, and the recovery of the old man would not have been effected.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | would · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **affect** | would · perfect · passive |  | the recovery of the old man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **recover** |  | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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