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title: At the same time she listened to all that was said, and she very muc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time she listened to all that was said, and she very much liked to hear the pastor's son speak about the elements and of the great men and women in history. Who acts: bunch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 70

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At the same time she listened to all that was said, and she very much liked to hear the pastor's son speak about the elements and of the great men and women in history.

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**Who acts:** bunch · **What happens:** listen, say, like, hear, speak · **To what, where:** that, son · **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 (bunch), 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:pg27200:155:70
# text = At the same time she listened to all that was said, and she very much liked to hear the pastor's son speak about the elements and of the great men and women in history.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | bunch |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | participle | bunch |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bunch *not said here* | the pastor's son |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | bunch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the elements and the great men in history and women | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about element=Topic |

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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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