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title: It was he who wrote that nice review of my 'Reflections on Domestic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was he who wrote that nice review of my 'Reflections on Domestic Life.' Who acts: judgment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 13

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It was he who wrote that nice review of my 'Reflections on Domestic Life.'

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**Who acts:** judgment · **What happens:** be, review · **To what, where:** Reflections

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judgment), 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:pg27200:103:13
# text = It was he who wrote that nice review of my 'Reflections on Domestic Life.'
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | judgment |  |  |  |  | write *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **review** |  |  | my Reflections on Domestic Life |  |  |  |  | nom review «cognition 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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