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title: But then he thought this was not a thing in which one must believe;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But then he thought this was not a thing in which one must believe; for all that he was startled when soon afterwards the pretty little girl had to lie in bed, and the doctor's carriage stopped at the gate every day. Who acts: moon, this, one, pretty little girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 99

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But then he thought this was not a thing in which one must believe; for all that he was startled when soon afterwards the pretty little girl had to lie in bed, and the doctor's carriage stopped at the gate every day.

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**Who acts:** moon, this, one, pretty little girl, carriage · **What happens:** think, not be, believe, startle, have, lie · **To what, where:** thing, moon, bed, gate · **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 (moon, this, one, pretty little girl), 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:pg27200:146:99
# text = But then he thought this was not a thing in which one must believe; for all that he was startled when soon afterwards the pretty little girl had to lie in bed, and the doctor's carriage stopped at the gate every day.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | moon |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | this | a thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | must | one |  |  | a thing |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **startle** | past · passive |  | moon |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | past | the pretty little girl |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | to-infinitive | the pretty little girl *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 7 | **stop** | past | the doctor's carriage |  |  | the gate | day |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |

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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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