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title: And perhaps it was very amusing, for, five years afterwards, when Ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And perhaps it was very amusing, for, five years afterwards, when Marie had fulfilled her seventeenth year, a messenger arrived with a letter, in which Lord Gyldenlowe proposed for the hand of the noble young lady. Who acts: box, Marie, Lord. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 52

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And perhaps it was very amusing, for, five years afterwards, when Marie had fulfilled her seventeenth year, a messenger arrived with a letter, in which Lord Gyldenlowe proposed for the hand of the noble young lady.

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**Who acts:** box, Marie, Lord · **What happens:** be, fulfil, arrive, propose · **To what, where:** messenger

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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 (box, Marie, Lord), 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:pg27200:149:52
# text = And perhaps it was very amusing, for, five years afterwards, when Marie had fulfilled her seventeenth year, a messenger arrived with a letter, in which Lord Gyldenlowe proposed for the hand of the noble young lady.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	Gyldenlowe	Gyldenlowe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | box |  |  |  |  | amusing, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fulfil** | past · perfect | Marie |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** | participle |  | a messenger *not said here* |  |  |  | with a letter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **propose** | past | Lord |  |  |  |  | for the hand of the noble young lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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