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title: * That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: * That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town that has steam-boats and stagecoaches: formerly people called it ugly, but that is no longer true. Who acts: That, town, lively town, formerly people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 41

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\* That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town that has steam-boats and stagecoaches: formerly people called it ugly, but that is no longer true.

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**Who acts:** That, town, lively town, formerly people · **What happens:** be, rise, have, call · **To what, where:** town, importance, steam boats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, town, lively town, formerly people), 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:pg1597:25:41
# text = * That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town that has steam-boats and stagecoaches: formerly people called it ugly, but that is no longer true.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stagecoaches	stagecoach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	formerly	formerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a town and a lively town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present · progressive | a town and a lively town |  |  | importance |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into importance=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | a lively town | steam boats and stagecoaches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | past | formerly people | importance |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | long, true *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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