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title: Little Emily was getting on with her education too, for she spoke Fr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Emily was getting on with her education too, for she spoke French with her "bonne," and had a dancing master. Who acts: Little Emily, Emily. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 60

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Little Emily was getting on with her education too, for she spoke French with her "bonne," and had a dancing master.

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**Who acts:** Little Emily, Emily · **What happens:** get on, speak, have, educate · **To what, where:** French, dancing master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Emily, Emily), 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:pg27200:146:60
# text = Little Emily was getting on with her education too, for she spoke French with her "bonne," and had a dancing master.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bonne	bonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get on** | past · progressive | Little Emily |  |  |  |  | with Emily's education | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Emily | French |  |  |  | with Emily's bonne | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Emily *not said here* | a dancing master |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient |
| 4 | **educate** |  | Emily |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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