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title: The Fir Tree The Flax The Flying Trunk The Shepherd's Story of the B… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fir Tree The Flax The Flying Trunk The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 7

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The Fir Tree The Flax The Flying Trunk The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship

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**What happens:** bond · **To what, where:** Friendship

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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: 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:pg27200:1:7
# text = The Fir Tree The Flax The Flying Trunk The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fir	Fir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Flax	Flax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Flying	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Trunk	Trunk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bond** |  |  | Friendship |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon 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:** «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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