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title: The next day, nobody spoke a word about what had taken place; thus o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day, nobody spoke a word about what had taken place; thus originated the phrase, "to pocket the flute." Who acts: nobody, flute. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 121

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The next day, nobody spoke a word about what had taken place; thus originated the phrase, "to pocket the flute."

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**Who acts:** nobody, flute · **What happens:** speak, take, originate, pocket · **To what, where:** word, place, phrase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, flute), 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:pg27200:155:121
# text = The next day, nobody spoke a word about what had taken place; thus originated the phrase, "to pocket the flute."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	originated	originate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | nobody | a word |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect |  | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **originate** | past | nobody *not said here* | the phrase |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Patient |
| 4 | **pocket** *in a quote* |  | the flute |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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