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title: So far did George get, and much further; else it had not been worth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So far did George get, and much further; else it had not been worth while to tell the story of THE PORTER'S SON. Who acts: George, it. 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 126

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So far did George get, and much further; else it had not been worth while to tell the story of THE PORTER'S SON.

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**Who acts:** George, it · **What happens:** get, not be, tell · **To what, where:** story · **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 (George, it), 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:pg27200:148:126
# text = So far did George get, and much further; else it had not been worth while to tell the story of THE PORTER'S SON.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	PORTER	PORTER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'S	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	SON	SON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | George |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | it |  |  |  |  | else, worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the story of the PORTER's SON |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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