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title: It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as old copper; then sent to Bavaria to be melted down in a furnace. 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 every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 61

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It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as old copper; then sent to Bavaria to be melted down in a furnace.

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**What happens:** say, carry, sell, send, melt down · **To what, where:** record, Marbach, Bavaria, furnace · **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: 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:pg27200:129:61
# text = It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as old copper; then sent to Bavaria to be melted down in a furnace.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Bavaria	Bavaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | record |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** | past |  |  |  | Marbach |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from marbach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as old copper | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | past |  |  | Bavaria |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bavaria=Destination |
| 5 | **melt down** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | a furnace |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |

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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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