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title: And a short time after, when the child had been baptized, the names… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And a short time after, when the child had been baptized, the names he had received were added, "John Christopher Frederick." Who acts: God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 13

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And a short time after, when the child had been baptized, the names he had received were added, "John Christopher Frederick."

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** baptize, receive, add · **To what, where:** child, names

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg27200:129:13
# text = And a short time after, when the child had been baptized, the names he had received were added, "John Christopher Frederick."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	after	after	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	baptized	baptize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **baptize** | past · perfect · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **receive** | past · perfect | God | the names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the names |  |  | time |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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