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title: So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly a short treatise “On the Owl”; but everybody was just as wise as before. Who acts: One, everybody. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 17

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So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly a short treatise “On the Owl”; but everybody was just as wise as before.

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**Who acts:** One, everybody · **What happens:** get, write, be · **To what, where:** place, short treatise

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (One, everybody), 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:pg1597:18:17
# text = So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly a short treatise “On the Owl”; but everybody was just as wise as before.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ringer	ringer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	yearly	yearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	treatise	treatise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	On	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | One | the place of Universal Bell ringer |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | past | One *not said here* | a short treatise |  |  |  | yearly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatise=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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