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title: And after that they were almost better friends than ever; when after… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And after that they were almost better friends than ever; when afterwards they returned to the dunes and began telling their adventures, this was told among the rest. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 55

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And after that they were almost better friends than ever; when afterwards they returned to the dunes and began telling their adventures, this was told among the rest.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** be, return, begin, tell, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg27200:160:55
# text = And after that they were almost better friends than ever; when afterwards they returned to the dunes and began telling their adventures, this was told among the rest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | after better friends |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | to the dunes *result*; afterwards *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to dune=Result |
| 3 | **begin** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | eyes's adventures |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | among the rest | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **adventure** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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