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title: The man had come, and had spoken quite like a person in good society… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The man had come, and had spoken quite like a person in good society, and had made himself very agreeable, so that the General had often to repeat his "Charming!" Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 111

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The man had come, and had spoken quite like a person in good society, and had made himself very agreeable, so that the General had often to repeat his "Charming!"

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, speak, make, repeat · **To what, where:** man, Charming · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg27200:148:111
# text = The man had come, and had spoken quite like a person in good society, and had made himself very agreeable, so that the General had often to repeat his "Charming!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a person in good society | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | the man *not said here* | man |  |  |  | agreeable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 4 | **repeat** | past |  | General's Charming |  |  |  | often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Eventuality |

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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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