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title: He had certainly been in grand society; but he had been obliged to c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had certainly been in grand society; but he had been obliged to creep under a room, and to make himself small enough to wear the uniform of a tin soldier. Who acts: Hjalmar. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 120

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He had certainly been in grand society; but he had been obliged to creep under a room, and to make himself small enough to wear the uniform of a tin soldier.

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**Who acts:** Hjalmar · **What happens:** have, be, oblige, creep, make, wear · **To what, where:** grand society, Hjalmar, room, uniform

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar), 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:pg27200:134:120
# text = He had certainly been in grand society; but he had been obliged to creep under a room, and to make himself small enough to wear the uniform of a tin soldier.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | grand society |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · perfect · passive |  | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **creep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under room=Trajectory |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Hjalmar |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 6 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  | the uniform of a tin soldier |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme |

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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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