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title: On Sunday afternoons they would bring out some books, generally a bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On Sunday afternoons they would bring out some books, generally a book of travels which they were very fond of. Who acts: people, book. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 95

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On Sunday afternoons they would bring out some books, generally a book of travels which they were very fond of.

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**Who acts:** people, book · **What happens:** bring out, travel, be · **To what, where:** books

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, book), 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:pg27200:133:95
# text = On Sunday afternoons they would bring out some books, generally a book of travels which they were very fond of.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	afternoons	afternoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring out** | would | people | some books |  |  | afternoon |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 2 | **travel** | present | a book |  |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fond *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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