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description: The diary kept growing through a long time, and amid many severe headaches, and through a long course of half-nights, that is to say, of court balls. Who acts: diary, amid, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 45

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The diary kept growing through a long time, and amid many severe headaches, and through a long course of half-nights, that is to say, of court balls.

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**Who acts:** diary, amid, that · **What happens:** keep, grow, headache, be · **To what, where:** long course

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diary, amid, that), 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:pg27200:147:45
# text = The diary kept growing through a long time, and amid many severe headaches, and through a long course of half-nights, that is to say, of court balls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	headaches	headache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj:outer	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the diary |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the diary *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **headache** |  | amid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  | a long course of half nights |  | say *property* | tree rules |

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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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