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title: In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another." Who acts: tragedy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, 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 3, sentence 120

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In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another."

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**Who acts:** tragedy · **What happens:** die, marry · **To what, where:** one, comedies

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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 (tragedy), 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:pg27200:148:120
# text = In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tragedies	tragedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	comedies	comedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	marry	marry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | tragedy |  |  |  |  | in tragedies | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tragedy=Attribute |
| 2 | **marry** | present | tragedy | one |  | comedies |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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