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title: Two of the smallest soon became tired and returned to the town; two… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two of the smallest soon became tired and returned to the town; two little girls sat down and made garlands of flowers, they, therefore, did not go on. Who acts: Two, two little girls, girls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 27

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Two of the smallest soon became tired and returned to the town; two little girls sat down and made garlands of flowers, they, therefore, did not go on.

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**Who acts:** Two, two little girls, girls · **What happens:** become, return, sit down, make, not go on · **To what, where:** garlands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, two little girls, girls), 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:pg27200:9:27
# text = Two of the smallest soon became tired and returned to the town; two little girls sat down and made garlands of flowers, they, therefore, did not go on.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Two |  |  |  |  | of the smallest; soon, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | participle | Two *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the town *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | two little girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | two little girls *not said here* | garlands of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garland=Product |
| 5 | **not** **go on** | past · do-support | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «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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