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title: Our aunt had been there several times, as well when there was a trag… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Our aunt had been there several times, as well when there was a tragedy as when there was a ballet; for the pieces in which there were the greatest number of characters on the stage were the most interesting to see from the flies. Who acts: aunt, tragedy, greatest number. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 43

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Our aunt had been there several times, as well when there was a tragedy as when there was a ballet; for the pieces in which there were the greatest number of characters on the stage were the most interesting to see from the flies.

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**Who acts:** aunt, tragedy, greatest number · **What happens:** be, see

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, tragedy, greatest number), 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:pg27200:139:43
# text = Our aunt had been there several times, as well when there was a tragedy as when there was a ballet; for the pieces in which there were the greatest number of characters on the stage were the most interesting to see from the flies.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	csubj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Our aunt |  |  |  | time | for the pieces; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | a tragedy |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a ballet | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the greatest number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of characters on the stage; interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the flies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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