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title: And if sometimes the mocking strain reached her-- — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And if sometimes the mocking strain reached her-- Who acts: mocking strain. 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 213

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And if sometimes the mocking strain reached her--

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**Who acts:** mocking strain · **What happens:** reach · **To what, where:** gift

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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 (mocking strain), 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:pg27200:143:213
# text = And if sometimes the mocking strain reached her--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	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 | the mocking strain | gift |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=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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