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title: One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flowe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flower on the grave of Holberg, the thanks of the year from a great many--thanks for his charming plays! Who acts: One star, Holberg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 50

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One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flower on the grave of Holberg, the thanks of the year from a great many--thanks for his charming plays!

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**Who acts:** One star, Holberg · **What happens:** fall, play · **To what, where:** midst, Soro

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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 (One star, Holberg), 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:pg27200:136:50
# text = One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flower on the grave of Holberg, the thanks of the year from a great many--thanks for his charming plays!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Soro	Soro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | One star |  |  | the midst of the land |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | One star *not said here* |  |  | Soro |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon soro=Location |
| 3 | **play** |  | Holberg |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: 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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