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title: These good people gave the child food and drink, and said he should… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These good people gave the child food and drink, and said he should stay with them all night, and that the next day the old man, who was called Giuseppe, would go and speak to his mother. Who acts: good people, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 91

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These good people gave the child food and drink, and said he should stay with them all night, and that the next day the old man, who was called Giuseppe, would go and speak to his mother.

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**Who acts:** good people, boy · **What happens:** give, say, stay, call, go, speak · **To what, where:** child food, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people, boy), 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:pg27200:89:91
# text = These good people gave the child food and drink, and said he should stay with them all night, and that the next day the old man, who was called Giuseppe, would go and speak to his mother.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	Giuseppe	Giuseppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | this good people | the child food and drink |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this good people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** | should | boy |  |  |  | night | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to boy's mother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mother=Co-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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