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title: On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed but very little, and it was not far enough away to be forgotten. Who acts: town, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 21

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On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed but very little, and it was not far enough away to be forgotten.

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**Who acts:** town, boy · **What happens:** appear, change, be, forget, visit · **To what, where:** first visit

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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 (town, boy), 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:pg27200:129:21
# text = On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed but very little, and it was not far enough away to be forgotten.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the town |  |  | boy's first visit to Marbach |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive · perfect | the town *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | town |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | to-infinitive · passive | town *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **visit** |  | boy |  |  |  |  | to Marbach | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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