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title: Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484. Who acts: one, dreadful pestilence. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 135

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Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.

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**Who acts:** one, dreadful pestilence · **What happens:** speak, rage, mean · **To what, where:** country, 1484 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one, dreadful pestilence), 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:pg1597:5:135
# text = Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	burghers	burgher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1484	1484	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | some one of the worthy burghers |  |  |  | now | of the dreadful pestilence | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rage** | past · perfect | the dreadful pestilence |  |  | the country |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | some one of the worthy burghers *not said here* | 1484 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1484=Topic |

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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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