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title: The Old Bachelor's Nightcap The Old Church Bell The Old Grave-stone… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Old Bachelor's Nightcap The Old Church Bell The Old Grave-stone The Old House What the Old Man Does is Always Right The Old Street Lamp Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God Ole the Tower-keeper Our Aunt Who acts: Old Man, Old Church Bell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 15

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The Old Bachelor's Nightcap The Old Church Bell The Old Grave-stone The Old House What the Old Man Does is Always Right The Old Street Lamp Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God Ole the Tower-keeper Our Aunt

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**Who acts:** Old Man, Old Church Bell · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** Old Church Bell, Always Right

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Man, Old Church Bell), 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:pg27200:1:15
# text = The Old Bachelor's Nightcap The Old Church Bell The Old Grave-stone The Old House What the Old Man Does is Always Right The Old Street Lamp Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God Ole the Tower-keeper Our Aunt
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bachelor	Bachelor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Nightcap	Nightcap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	Grave	Grave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	Always	Always	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Right	Right	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Luk	Luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Oie	Oie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	Dream	Dream	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the Old Man | the Old Bachelor's Old Church Bell |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Old Bachelor's Old Church Bell | Always Right and the Dream God Ole |  |  |  | the Old Street *nmod* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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