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title: At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very gl… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very glorious nature took place between the British troops and the undisciplined Danish militia. Who acts: encounter. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 21

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At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very glorious nature took place between the British troops and the undisciplined Danish militia.

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**Who acts:** encounter · **What happens:** take, invade, encounter · **To what, where:** place, 1807, English, glorious nature

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (encounter), 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:pg1597:25:21
# text = At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very glorious nature took place between the British troops and the undisciplined Danish militia.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1807	1807	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	undisciplined	undisciplined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	militia	militia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a encounter of a glorious nature | place and the undisciplined Danish militia |  | 1807 |  | between the British troops | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1807=Location |
| 2 | **invade** |  |  | the English |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **encounter** |  |  | a glorious nature |  |  |  |  | nom encounter «act transitive»: of=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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