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title: Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Copenhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it. Who acts: inhabitant, entrance, others,
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 14

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Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Copenhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.

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**Who acts:** inhabitant, entrance, others, we · **What happens:** know, look, be, not be, read, give · **To what, where:** personal inspection, Copenhagen people, little work, short description, entrance

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitant, entrance, others, we), 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:pg1597:7:14
# text = Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Copenhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	inspection	inspection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Hospital	Hospital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **know** | present | every inhabitant of Copenhagen | personal inspection |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer inspection=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | the entrance to Frederick's Hospital |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | entrance |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | others | Copenhagen people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | may | others | this little work |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
| 6 | **give** | future | we | a short description of entrance |  |  |  | beforehand *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 7 | **describe** |  |  | entrance |  |  |  |  | nom description «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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