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title: She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation dir… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation directly with the strange gentleman, on their promenades. Who acts: princess, grief. 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 198

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She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation directly with the strange gentleman, on their promenades.

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**Who acts:** princess, grief · **What happens:** become, enter, promenade · **To what, where:** conversation

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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: who acts (princess, grief), 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:pg1597:23:198
# text = She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation directly with the strange gentleman, on their promenades.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	promenades	promenade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | princess |  |  |  |  | inquisitive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **enter** | past | princess |  |  | conversation |  | with the strange gentleman; on grief's promenades; directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **promenade** |  | grief |  |  |  |  |  | nom promenade «event intransitive»: poss=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:** «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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