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title: The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may be co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may be continued;" so might our wanderings in the churchyard be continued. Who acts: great poet, our. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 54

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The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may be continued;" so might our wanderings in the churchyard be continued.

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**Who acts:** great poet, our · **What happens:** conclude, continue, wander · **To what, where:** Faust, wanderings, churchyard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great poet, our), 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:pg27200:16:54
# text = The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may be continued;" so might our wanderings in the churchyard be continued.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Goethe	Goethe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	concludes	conclude	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Faust	faust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present | the great poet | poet's Faust |  |  |  | with the words | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **continue** | might · passive |  | our wanderings in the churchyard |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **wander** |  | our |  |  | the churchyard |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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