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title: One stanza pleased him exceedingly-- — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One stanza pleased him exceedingly-- A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 109

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One stanza pleased him exceedingly--

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. 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:pg27200:128:109
# text = One stanza pleased him exceedingly--
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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