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title: "When I read a good book, an historical work, I always think at last… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When I read a good book, an historical work, I always think at last of the poetry of what I am reading, and of the omnibus of death, and wonder, which of the hero's deeds Death took out of the savings bank for him, and what provisions he got on the journey into eternity. Who acts: potsherds, Death,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 47

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"When I read a good book, an historical work, I always think at last of the poetry of what I am reading, and of the omnibus of death, and wonder, which of the hero's deeds Death took out of the savings bank for him, and what provisions he got on the journey into eternity.

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**Who acts:** potsherds, Death, provisions · **What happens:** read, think, take out, get · **To what, where:** good book, last, savings bank, journey

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (potsherds, Death, provisions), 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:pg27200:138:47
# text = "When I read a good book, an historical work, I always think at last of the poetry of what I am reading, and of the omnibus of death, and wonder, which of the hero's deeds Death took out of the savings bank for him, and what provisions he got on the journey into eternity.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
43	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	49	compound	_	_
49	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
55	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** *in a quote* | past | potsherds *= potsherd* | a good book and a historical work |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | potsherds *= potsherd* |  |  | last of the poetry of last of the poetry of last |  | of the omnibus of death and wonder and the hero's deeds; always *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | present · progressive | potsherds *= potsherd* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take out** *in a quote* | past | Death | the savings bank |  |  |  | for poetry | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past | provisions |  |  | the journey | into eternity |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eternity=Destination |

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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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