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title: This or that honest citizen would often come to the ferry-house from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This or that honest citizen would often come to the ferry-house from the neighboring little town. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 172

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This or that honest citizen would often come to the ferry-house from the neighboring little town.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** come, neighbor · **To what, where:** ferry house

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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 (This), 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:pg27200:149:172
# text = This or that honest citizen would often come to the ferry-house from the neighboring little town.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | This |  |  | the ferry house from the neighboring little town |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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