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title: I always reckon the first prize by going through the alphabet from t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I always reckon the first prize by going through the alphabet from the beginning, and the second by going through from the end. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 24

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I always reckon the first prize by going through the alphabet from the beginning, and the second by going through from the end.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reckon, go · **To what, where:** first prize, alphabet, end

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:153:24
# text = I always reckon the first prize by going through the alphabet from the beginning, and the second by going through from the end.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | I | the first prize |  |  |  | always *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent prize=Attribute |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the alphabet | from the beginning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through alphabet=Initial\_Location from beginning=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | through the end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through end=Initial\_Location |

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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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