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title: "George will be confirmed at Easter," said the porter's wife; for Ge… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "George will be confirmed at Easter," said the porter's wife; for George had got so far as this. Who acts: wife, George. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 61

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"George will be confirmed at Easter," said the porter's wife; for George had got so far as this.

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**Who acts:** wife, George · **What happens:** confirm, say, get · **To what, where:** George, Easter · **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 (wife, George), 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:pg27200:146:61
# text = "George will be confirmed at Easter," said the porter's wife; for George had got so far as this.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | George |  | Easter |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the porter's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | George |  |  |  |  | as this; far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as this=Attribute |

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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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