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title: Out of the French pieces I get to know life in Paris--slippery, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of the French pieces I get to know life in Paris--slippery, but exceedingly interesting. Who acts: I. 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 9

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Out of the French pieces I get to know life in Paris--slippery, but exceedingly interesting.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, know · **To what, where:** French pieces, life, Paris

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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 (I), 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:pg27200:139:9
# text = Out of the French pieces I get to know life in Paris--slippery, but exceedingly interesting.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | I |  |  | the French pieces |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | life |  | Paris |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |

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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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