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description: He had been to a concert, and had been quite enchanted with the admirable performance of a famous violin player whom he had heard there. Who acts: poet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 24

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He had been to a concert, and had been quite enchanted with the admirable performance of a famous violin player whom he had heard there.

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**Who acts:** poet · **What happens:** be, enchant, hear, perform · **To what, where:** famous violin player

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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:pg27200:142:24
# text = He had been to a concert, and had been quite enchanted with the admirable performance of a famous violin player whom he had heard there.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	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 | **is** | past · perfect | poet |  |  |  |  | to a concert | tree rules |
| 2 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive | poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the admirable performance of a famous violin player | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | poet | a famous violin player |  | there |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **perform** |  |  | a famous violin player |  |  |  |  | nom performance «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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