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title: There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entir… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 110

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There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entirely in character, and with the same tone of voice, that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.

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**Who acts:** acquaintance · **What happens:** appear, speak, be, imitate, intonate · **To what, where:** acquaintance, voice · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acquaintance), 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:pg1597:6:110
# text = There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entirely in character, and with the same tone of voice, that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | every acquaintance |  |  | there |  | with the same tone of voice; entirely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | every acquaintance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the stage | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | every acquaintance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **imitate** | to-infinitive | every acquaintance *not said here* | acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **intonate** |  |  | voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication 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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