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title: Have you heard of Kai Lykke, who caused a church to be pulled down,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you heard of Kai Lykke, who caused a church to be pulled down, and when the clergyman, Master Martin, thundered from the pulpit about it, he had him put in irons, and sat in judgment upon him, and condemned him to death? Who acts: you, Kai Lykke, clergyman, Master. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 190

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Have you heard of Kai Lykke, who caused a church to be pulled down, and when the clergyman, Master Martin, thundered from the pulpit about it, he had him put in irons, and sat in judgment upon him, and condemned him to death?

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**Who acts:** you, Kai Lykke, clergyman, Master · **What happens:** hear, cause, pull down, thunder, have, put · **To what, where:** church, pulpit, Master, irons, judgment, clergyman

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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 (you, Kai Lykke, clergyman, Master), 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:pg27200:149:190
# text = Have you heard of Kai Lykke, who caused a church to be pulled down, and when the clergyman, Master Martin, thundered from the pulpit about it, he had him put in irons, and sat in judgment upon him, and condemned him to death?
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lykke	Lykke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | of Kai Lykke | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lykke=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cause** | past | Kai Lykke | a church |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition church=Patient |
| 3 | **pull down** | to-infinitive · passive | Kai Lykke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **thunder** | past | the clergyman |  |  | the pulpit about pulpit |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | clergyman | Master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | participle | Master *not said here* |  |  | irons |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in iron=Destination |
| 7 | **sit** | past | the clergyman *not said here* |  |  | judgment |  | upon clergyman | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in judgment=Location |
| 8 | **condemn** | past | you *not said here* | clergyman |  |  |  | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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