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title: The proper authorities were informed of the circumstance, people tal… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The proper authorities were informed of the circumstance, people talked a good deal about it, and in the morning the body was carried to the hospital. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 5

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The proper authorities were informed of the circumstance, people talked a good deal about it, and in the morning the body was carried to the hospital.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** inform, talk, carry · **To what, where:** proper authorities, good deal, body, hospital

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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 (people), 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:pg1597:7:5
# text = The proper authorities were informed of the circumstance, people talked a good deal about it, and in the morning the body was carried to the hospital.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the proper authorities |  |  |  | of the circumstance | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of circumstance=Topic |
| 2 | **talk** | past | people | a good deal |  |  |  | about deal | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the body |  | the hospital | morning |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination |

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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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