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title: I visited him at least once a year, generally directly after New Yea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I visited him at least once a year, generally directly after New Year's day, and then he always spoke of this and that which the change of the year had put into his head. Who acts: I, blacking, year. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 16

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I visited him at least once a year, generally directly after New Year's day, and then he always spoke of this and that which the change of the year had put into his head.

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**Who acts:** I, blacking, year · **What happens:** visit, speak, put, change · **To what, where:** blacking, change, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, blacking, year), 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:pg27200:135:16
# text = I visited him at least once a year, generally directly after New Year's day, and then he always spoke of this and that which the change of the year had put into his head.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | I | blacking |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | blacking |  |  |  | then | of this; always *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | the change of the year |  | blacking's head |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **change** |  | the year |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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