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description: Now if the words on the note had been "many thanks for yesterday's reception," we might easily have guessed from whom it came. Who acts: we, words, note, yesterday. 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 pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 58

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Now if the words on the note had been "many thanks for yesterday's reception," we might easily have guessed from whom it came.

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**Who acts:** we, words, note, yesterday · **What happens:** guess, be, come, receive

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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 (we, words, note, yesterday), 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:pg27200:148:58
# text = Now if the words on the note had been "many thanks for yesterday's reception," we might easily have guessed from whom it came.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | might · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the words on the note |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | note |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** *in a quote* |  | yesterday |  |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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