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title: "I sought the other poet out, the wild one; him also I found in a gr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I sought the other poet out, the wild one; him also I found in a great assembly at his patron's, where the tame poet's book was being discussed. Who acts: editor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 38

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"I sought the other poet out, the wild one; him also I found in a great assembly at his patron's, where the tame poet's book was being discussed.

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**Who acts:** editor · **What happens:** seek out, find, discuss · **To what, where:** other poet, editor, great assembly, book

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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 (editor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:7024`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:103:38
# text = "I sought the other poet out, the wild one; him also I found in a great assembly at his patron's, where the tame poet's book was being discussed.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek out** *in a quote* | past | editor | the other poet |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | past | editor | editor |  | a great assembly at editor's patron |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the tame poet's book |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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