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title: It got into the papers, it was printed; and there is no doubt about… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It got into the papers, it was printed; and there is no doubt about it, one little feather may easily grow into five hens. Who acts: story, doubt, one little feather. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 51

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It got into the papers, it was printed; and there is no doubt about it, one little feather may easily grow into five hens.

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**Who acts:** story, doubt, one little feather · **What happens:** get, print, be, grow · **To what, where:** papers, story

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, doubt, one little feather), 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:pg27200:126:51
# text = It got into the papers, it was printed; and there is no doubt about it, one little feather may easily grow into five hens.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | story |  |  | the papers |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into paper=Destination |
| 2 | **print** | past · passive |  | story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no doubt about story |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | may | one little feather |  |  |  |  | into five hens *result*; easily *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hen=Result |

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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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