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title: She told him from what land she came, and he knew that land; he had… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She told him from what land she came, and he knew that land; he had been there, but then she was not at home; he had peeped in at the window, above and below--he had seen both the one and the other, and so he could answer the princess, and make insinuations, so that she was quite astonished; he must
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 214

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She told him from what land she came, and he knew that land; he had been there, but then she was not at home; he had peeped in at the window, above and below--he had seen both the one and the other, and so he could answer the princess, and make insinuations, so that she was quite astonished; he must be the wisest man in the whole world!

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**Who acts:** princess, stranger · **What happens:** tell, come, know, be, not be, peep in · **To what, where:** stranger, land, home, one, princess, insinuations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, stranger), 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:pg1597:23:214
# text = She told him from what land she came, and he knew that land; he had been there, but then she was not at home; he had peeped in at the window, above and below--he had seen both the one and the other, and so he could answer the princess, and make insinuations, so that she was quite astonished; he must be the wisest man in the whole world!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	above	above	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	below	below	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
44	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc:preconj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	parataxis	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	_
61	insinuations	insinuation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
63	so	so	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
64	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
65	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
68	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
70	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
71	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	75	aux	_	_
72	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	75	cop	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
74	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	75	amod	_	_
75	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
76	in	in	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
78	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	79	amod	_	_
79	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | princess |  | stranger | land |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | princess | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | stranger | that land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | stranger |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | princess |  |  | home | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **peep in** | past · perfect | stranger |  |  |  |  | at the window; above *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | past · perfect | stranger | the one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | could | stranger |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 9 | **make** | infinitive | stranger *not said here* | insinuations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset insinuation=Product |
| 10 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **is a** | must | stranger | the wisest man |  | the whole world |  |  | 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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