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title: The eighth letter from A is H, and there we have H for hare; therefo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eighth letter from A is H, and there we have H for hare; therefore I awarded to the hare the first prize. Who acts: we, 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 26

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The eighth letter from A is H, and there we have H for hare; therefore I awarded to the hare the first prize.

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**Who acts:** we, I · **What happens:** be, have, award · **To what, where:** H, first prize, hare

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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 (we, 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:pg27200:153:26
# text = The eighth letter from A is H, and there we have H for hare; therefore I awarded to the hare the first prize.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	H	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	awarded	award	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a H |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | H |  | there |  | for hare | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent h=Patient |
| 3 | **award** | past | I | the first prize | the hare |  |  | therefore *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to hare=Goal |

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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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