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title: We find him taking high honors at the military school in the divisio… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We find him taking high honors at the military school in the division commanded by the member of a family high in position, and this was an honor, that is to say, good luck. Who acts: We, career, this, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the S
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 35

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We find him taking high honors at the military school in the division commanded by the member of a family high in position, and this was an honor, that is to say, good luck.

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**Who acts:** We, career, this, that · **What happens:** find, take, command, be · **To what, where:** career, high honors, military school, division, honor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (We, career, this, that), 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:pg27200:129:35
# text = We find him taking high honors at the military school in the division commanded by the member of a family high in position, and this was an honor, that is to say, good luck.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	honors	honor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj:outer	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **find** | present | We | career |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | career *not said here* | high honors |  | the military school |  | in the division | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent honor=Value in division=Location |
| 3 | **command** | participle |  | the division *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | a honor and good luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |

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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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