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title: Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were tak… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were taken at the entry of the patient; but here they were retained and guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away. Who acts: difference, institution, sound persons. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 68

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Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were taken at the entry of the patient; but here they were retained and guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away.

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**Who acts:** difference, institution, sound persons · **What happens:** be, take, retain, guard, go away, enter · **To what, where:** casts, entry, heart, patient

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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 (difference, institution, sound persons), 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:pg1597:7:68
# text = Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were taken at the entry of the patient; but here they were retained and guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	casts	cast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | this difference |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive | the institution *not said here* | the casts |  | the entry of the patient |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at entry=Asset |
| 3 | **retain** | past · passive |  | casts *= cast* |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **guard** | participle |  |  |  | the heart |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go away** | past | the sound persons |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **enter** |  |  | the patient |  |  |  |  | nom entry «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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