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title: One day there were great visitors in the neighborhood, the grandest… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day there were great visitors in the neighborhood, the grandest visitors who could come. Who acts: great visitors, grandest visitors. 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 48

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One day there were great visitors in the neighborhood, the grandest visitors who could come.

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**Who acts:** great visitors, grandest visitors · **What happens:** be, come

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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 (great visitors, grandest visitors), 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:pg27200:149:48
# text = One day there were great visitors in the neighborhood, the grandest visitors who could come.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	grandest	grand	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | great visitors in the neighborhood and the grandest visitors |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | could | the grandest visitors |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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