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title: He had studied, too, and had been assistant teacher and deputy clerk… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had studied, too, and had been assistant teacher and deputy clerk; but of what service was all that to him? Who acts: Such, service. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 6

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He had studied, too, and had been assistant teacher and deputy clerk; but of what service was all that to him?

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**Who acts:** Such, service · **What happens:** study, be · **To what, where:** assistant teacher, that

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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 (Such, service), 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:pg27200:135:6
# text = He had studied, too, and had been assistant teacher and deputy clerk; but of what service was all that to him?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	assistant	assistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	deputy	deputy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obl	_	_
19	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | past · perfect | Such |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of what=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect |  | assistant teacher and deputy clerk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | service | that |  |  |  |  | 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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