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title: On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack. Who acts: I, usual New Year. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 21

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On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack.

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**Who acts:** I, usual New Year · **What happens:** read, lose, forget, divert · **To what, where:** book, eve, myself, diversion

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, usual New 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:pg27200:136:21
# text = On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	diversion	diversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Amack	Amack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past · progressive | I | the book |  | last New Year's eve |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | I *not said here* | myself |  | eve |  | completely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality |
| 3 | **forget** | past | I | my usual New Year's diversion and the wild hunt to Amack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **divert** |  | my usual New Year |  |  |  |  |  | nom diversion «act transitive»: poss=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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