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title: But no tidings of all this reached the poet's home in India. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But no tidings of all this reached the poet's home in India. Who acts: tidings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 140

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But no tidings of all this reached the poet's home in India.

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**Who acts:** tidings · **What happens:** reach · **To what, where:** home, India

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tidings), 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:pg27200:143:140
# text = But no tidings of all this reached the poet's home in India.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | no tidings of this | the poet's home |  | India |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |

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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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