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title: It was not the 'Judgment of Solomon' that was performed; no, a real… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not the 'Judgment of Solomon' that was performed; no, a real court of judgment was held upon the stage." Who acts: life, Solomon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 58

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It was not the 'Judgment of Solomon' that was performed; no, a real court of judgment was held upon the stage."

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**Who acts:** life, Solomon · **What happens:** not be, perform, hold · **To what, where:** Judgment, Solomon, real court, stage

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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 (life, Solomon), 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:pg27200:139:58
# text = It was not the 'Judgment of Solomon' that was performed; no, a real court of judgment was held upon the stage."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | life | the Judgment |  |  |  | of Solomon | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | past · passive | Solomon *not said here* | Solomon |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a real court of judgment |  | the stage |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon stage=Location |

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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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