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title: A "peep" and three foot-scrapings--in this way she had often greeted… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A "peep" and three foot-scrapings--in this way she had often greeted throughout the year, and no one here had responded, for those who are once parted do not meet every day; and so this greeting had become a habit with her. Who acts: way, one, greeting. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 186

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A "peep" and three foot-scrapings--in this way she had often greeted throughout the year, and no one here had responded, for those who are once parted do not meet every day; and so this greeting had become a habit with her.

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**Who acts:** way, one, greeting · **What happens:** greet, respond, part, not meet, become · **To what, where:** mother, habit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, one, greeting), 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:pg27200:124:186
# text = A "peep" and three foot-scrapings--in this way she had often greeted throughout the year, and no one here had responded, for those who are once parted do not meet every day; and so this greeting had become a habit with her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	scrapings	scraping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	greeted	greet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	xcomp	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · perfect · passive | this way *not said here* | mother |  |  | year | often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past · perfect | no one |  |  |  |  | for those | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **part** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **meet** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** | past · perfect | this greeting | a habit with mother |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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