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title: The music-master wrote a work, in twenty-five volumes, about the art… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The music-master wrote a work, in twenty-five volumes, about the artificial bird, which was very learned and very long, and full of the most difficult Chinese words; yet all the people said they had read it, and understood it, for fear of being thought stupid and having their bodies trampled upon. W
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 98

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The music-master wrote a work, in twenty-five volumes, about the artificial bird, which was very learned and very long, and full of the most difficult Chinese words; yet all the people said they had read it, and understood it, for fear of being thought stupid and having their bodies trampled upon.

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**Who acts:** music master, people, bodies · **What happens:** write, learn, say, read, understand, think · **To what, where:** work, five volumes, artificial bird, fear, bodies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music master, people, bodies), 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:pg27200:125:98
# text = The music-master wrote a work, in twenty-five volumes, about the artificial bird, which was very learned and very long, and full of the most difficult Chinese words; yet all the people said they had read it, and understood it, for fear of being thought stupid and having their bodies trampled upon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	ccomp	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
56	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	conj	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
61	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	xcomp	_	_
62	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | the music master | a work |  | five volumes |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Theme in volume=Destination |
| 2 | **learn** | past · passive |  | the artificial bird |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **read** | past · perfect | people | work |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **understand** | past | the music master *not said here* | work |  |  |  | for fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  | fear *not said here* |  |  |  | stupid *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **have** | gerund |  | people's bodies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **trample** | participle | people's bodies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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