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title: "One of our first families!" repeated the General and afterwards the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "One of our first families!" repeated the General and afterwards the General's lady; "what is meant by one of our first families?" 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 33

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"One of our first families!" repeated the General and afterwards the General's lady; "what is meant by one of our first families?"

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**What happens:** repeat, mean · **To what, where:** One

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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: 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:pg27200:148:33
# text = "One of our first families!" repeated the General and afterwards the General's lady; "what is meant by one of our first families?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past |  | One |  |  |  | of our first families | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | by one of our first families | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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