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title: And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how his head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital. Who acts: Heaven. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 89

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And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how his head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.

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**Who acts:** Heaven · **What happens:** remember, jam · **To what, where:** important event, head, iron railings

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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 (Heaven), 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:pg1597:7:89
# text = And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how his head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	railings	railing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Heaven | the important event of the evening |  |  | now | before *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme |
| 2 | **jam** | past · perfect · passive |  | Heaven's head |  | the iron railings of the hospital |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in railing=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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