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title: His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own. Who acts: history, others, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 229

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His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own.

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**Who acts:** history, others, we · **What happens:** change, become, make, leave, relate · **To what, where:** own history, that, story, many stories, visions, own

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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: who acts (history, others, we), 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:pg27200:128:229
# text = His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive |  | Anthony's own history |  |  |  | into that *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into that=Result |
| 2 | **become** | past | history | quite story |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | might · passive | others | many stories |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 4 | **leave** | future | we | visions *= vision* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **relate** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | visions's own |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme |

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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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