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title: Probably a translation of the celebrated Moon hoax, written by Richa… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably a translation of the celebrated Moon hoax, written by Richard A. Locke, and originally published in New York. Who acts: celebrated Moon hoax. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 106

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Probably a translation of the celebrated Moon hoax, written by Richard A. Locke, and originally published in New York.

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**Who acts:** celebrated Moon hoax · **What happens:** celebrate, write, publish, translate · **To what, where:** celebrated Moon hoax, Richard, New York

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (celebrated Moon hoax), 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:pg1597:6:106
# text = Probably a translation of the celebrated Moon hoax, written by Richard A. Locke, and originally published in New York.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hoax	hoax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
13	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Locke	Locke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the celebrated Moon hoax *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **publish** | participle |  | Richard *not said here* |  | New York |  | originally *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **translate** |  | the celebrated Moon hoax |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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