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title: More than once she met the noble Sir Palle Dyre, of Norrebak, who wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: More than once she met the noble Sir Palle Dyre, of Norrebak, who was also wandering about with his gun and his dogs. Who acts: spirit, Norrebak. 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 claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 90

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More than once she met the noble Sir Palle Dyre, of Norrebak, who was also wandering about with his gun and his dogs.

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**Who acts:** spirit, Norrebak · **What happens:** meet, wonder · **To what, where:** noble Palle Dyre

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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 (spirit, Norrebak), 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:pg27200:149:90
# text = More than once she met the noble Sir Palle Dyre, of Norrebak, who was also wandering about with his gun and his dogs.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Palle	Palle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Dyre	Dyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Norrebak	Norrebak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | spirit | the noble Palle Dyre and Norrebak and Norrebak's dogs |  |  |  | once *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dyre=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Norrebak |  |  |  |  | with Norrebak's gun; about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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