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title: The Danish historian, Ludwig Holberg, who has written so many useful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Danish historian, Ludwig Holberg, who has written so many useful books and merry comedies, from which we can get such a good idea of his times and their people, tells in his letters of Marie Grubbe, where and how he met her. Who acts: we, Danish historian, historian. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 129

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The Danish historian, Ludwig Holberg, who has written so many useful books and merry comedies, from which we can get such a good idea of his times and their people, tells in his letters of Marie Grubbe, where and how he met her.

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**Who acts:** we, Danish historian, historian · **What happens:** write, get, tell, meet, letter · **To what, where:** Danish historian, good idea, letters, Ludwig, Marie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Danish historian, historian), 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:pg27200:149:129
# text = The Danish historian, Ludwig Holberg, who has written so many useful books and merry comedies, from which we can get such a good idea of his times and their people, tells in his letters of Marie Grubbe, where and how he met her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ludwig	Ludwig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	comedies	comedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
35	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Danish historian |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient book=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | can | we | such good idea of historian's times and books's people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent idea=Theme from which=Source |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Danish historian |  |  | historian's letters of Marie |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | past | historian | Ludwig |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **letter** |  | historian | Marie |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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