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title: But often there would arise in his mind a doubt as to whether every… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But often there would arise in his mind a doubt as to whether every coal had been quite put out in the little fire-pan in the shop below. Who acts: Anthony. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 46

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But often there would arise in his mind a doubt as to whether every coal had been quite put out in the little fire-pan in the shop below.

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**Who acts:** Anthony · **What happens:** arise, put out, mind · **To what, where:** doubt, mind, coal, little fire pan

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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 (Anthony), 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:pg27200:128:46
# text = But often there would arise in his mind a doubt as to whether every coal had been quite put out in the little fire-pan in the shop below.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	arise	arise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
30	below	below	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | would |  | a doubt |  | Anthony's mind; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doubt=Theme |
| 2 | **put out** | past · perfect · passive |  | every coal |  | the little fire pan |  | in the shop; below *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pan=Destination |
| 3 | **mind** |  | Anthony |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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