Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 53

And King Louis sent the executioner to them every week, and had a tooth pulled out of the head of each, that they might not be too comfortable; and the elder of the boys said, 'My mother would die of grief if she knew that my younger brother had to suffer so cruelly; therefore pull out two of my teeth, and spare him.'

Who acts: King, tooth, elder, mother, younger brother · What happens: send, have, pull out, not be, say, die · To what, where: executioner, children, tooth, head, two, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

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Pragmatics

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