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title: They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied. Who acts: houses, conversation. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 10

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They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied.

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**Who acts:** houses, conversation · **What happens:** get, begin, crystallise, do, supply · **To what, where:** scanty stream

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, conversation), 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:pg1597:5:10
# text = They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	crystallise	crystallise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the conversation |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **crystallise** | to-infinitive | the conversation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | the conversation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the scanty stream | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **supply** | participle · passive |  | the scanty stream |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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