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title: The discourse fell upon Mother Soren, but the tax collector did not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The discourse fell upon Mother Soren, but the tax collector did not know much about her, and, indeed, few knew much about her. Who acts: discourse, tax collector, few. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 208

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The discourse fell upon Mother Soren, but the tax collector did not know much about her, and, indeed, few knew much about her.

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**Who acts:** discourse, tax collector, few · **What happens:** fall, not know, know · **To what, where:** much

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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 (discourse, tax collector, few), 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:pg27200:149:208
# text = The discourse fell upon Mother Soren, but the tax collector did not know much about her, and, indeed, few knew much about her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	Soren	Soren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the discourse |  |  |  |  | upon Mother | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon mother=Location |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the tax collector | much |  |  |  | about discourse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | past | few |  |  |  |  | about discourse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about she=Stimulus |

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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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