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title: * The word mahogany can be understood, in Danish, as having two mean… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: * The word mahogany can be understood, in Danish, as having two meanings. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 16

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\* The word mahogany can be understood, in Danish, as having two meanings.

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**What happens:** understand, have · **To what, where:** word mahogany, two meanings

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:23:16
# text = * The word mahogany can be understood, in Danish, as having two meanings.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | can · passive |  | the word mahogany |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | two meanings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient |

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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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