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title: Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him; he is said to lead a solitary life, and to have nobody with whom he can converse save the great old church Bell. Who acts: Grandmother, spirit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 8

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Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him; he is said to lead a solitary life, and to have nobody with whom he can converse save the great old church Bell.

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**Who acts:** Grandmother, spirit · **What happens:** say, hear, lead, have, converse, save · **To what, where:** own grandmother tell, spirit, solitary life, nobody, great old church Bell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, spirit), 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:pg27200:10:8
# text = Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him; he is said to lead a solitary life, and to have nobody with whom he can converse save the great old church Bell.
1	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | Grandmother | Grandmother's own grandmother tell of spirit |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | to-infinitive |  | a solitary life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient |
| 6 | **converse** *speech: other* | can | spirit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **save** | infinitive | spirit *not said here* | the great old church Bell |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme |

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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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