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title: The foreign learned man considered this music very delightful; but p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The foreign learned man considered this music very delightful; but perhaps he fancied it; for everything in these warm countries pleased him, excepting the heat of the sun. The foreign landlord said he did not know who had taken the opposite house--nobody was to be seen there; and as to the music, h
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 18

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The foreign learned man considered this music very delightful; but perhaps he fancied it; for everything in these warm countries pleased him, excepting the heat of the sun. The foreign landlord said he did not know who had taken the opposite house--nobody was to be seen there; and as to the music, he thought it seemed very tedious, to him most uncommonly so.

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**Who acts:** foreign, man, music, warm countries, it, sun. · **What happens:** learn, consider, fancy, except, say, not know · **To what, where:** music, door, heat, opposite house, nobody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign, man, music, warm countries), 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:pg27200:165:18
# text = The foreign learned man considered this music very delightful; but perhaps he fancied it; for everything in these warm countries pleased him, excepting the heat of the sun. The foreign landlord said he did not know who had taken the opposite house--nobody was to be seen there; and as to the music, he thought it seemed very tedious, to him most uncommonly so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
35	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	ccomp	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	ccomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
52	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
55	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	58	cc	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	fixed	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	ccomp	_	_
64	very	very	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	tedious	tedious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	to	to	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	ccomp	_	_
69	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	70	advmod	_	_
70	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
71	so	so	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the foreign |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consider** | past | man | this music |  |  |  | delightful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent music=Attribute |
| 3 | **fancy** | past | music | door |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **except** | gerund | this warm countries *not said here* | the heat of the sun. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for everything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | music |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **take** | past · perfect |  | the opposite house |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | past · passive |  | nobody |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | past | music | the music |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 10 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | tedious *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **heat** |  | the sun. |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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