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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 48

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There was once a French king--I have forgotten his name, for the names of good people are sometimes forgotten, even by me, but it will come back some day;--there was a king who, during a famine, became the benefactor of his people; and the people raised up to his memory a monument of snow, with the inscription, 'Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help!'

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**Who acts:** French king, I, me, name, king, people · **What happens:** be, forget, come back, become, raise up, melt · **To what, where:** name, king, benefactor, monument, memory, help

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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 (French king, I, me, name), 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:pg27200:138:48
# text = There was once a French king--I have forgotten his name, for the names of good people are sometimes forgotten, even by me, but it will come back some day;--there was a king who, during a famine, became the benefactor of his people; and the people raised up to his memory a monument of snow, with the inscription, 'Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help!'
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	during	during	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	xcomp	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
67	with	with	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
71	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	Quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	69	conj	_	_
73	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	75	mark	_	_
74	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	75	nsubj	_	_
75	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	72	advcl	_	_
76	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	parataxis	_	_
77	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	78	nsubj	_	_
78	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	76	xcomp	_	_
79	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	78	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	78	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a French king |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present · perfect | I | provision's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | present · passive | me |  |  |  |  | for the names of good people; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** | future | name |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | past | a king | the benefactor of provision's people |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **raise up** | past | the people | a monument of snow |  | provision's memory |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monument=Theme to memory=Destination |
| 8 | **melt** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **do** | past | the inscription |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **bring** | infinitive | thou | help |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 11 | **name** |  | provision |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 12 | **name** |  |  | good people |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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