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title: It would have cost her but a word, and a brilliant house would have… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have cost her but a word, and a brilliant house would have arisen for her on the banks of the Thames--a word, and a villa would have been prepared in the Bay of Naples. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 17

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It would have cost her but a word, and a brilliant house would have arisen for her on the banks of the Thames--a word, and a villa would have been prepared in the Bay of Naples.

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**What happens:** cost, arise, prepare · **To what, where:** visit, woman, brilliant house, banks, villa, Bay

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. 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:pg27200:115:17
# text = It would have cost her but a word, and a brilliant house would have arisen for her on the banks of the Thames--a word, and a villa would have been prepared in the Bay of Naples.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	cost	cost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	arisen	arise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Thames	Thames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	villa	villa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Naples	Naples	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | would · perfect · passive |  | visit | woman |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value |
| 2 | **arise** | would · perfect · passive |  | a brilliant house |  | the banks of the Thames |  | for woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **prepare** | would · perfect · passive |  | a villa |  | the Bay of Naples |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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