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title: It happened as a punishment to him, for having boasted so shockingly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened as a punishment to him, for having boasted so shockingly of things which were not true. Who acts: It, things. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 52

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It happened as a punishment to him, for having boasted so shockingly of things which were not true.

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**Who acts:** It, things · **What happens:** happen, boast, not be · **To what, where:** collar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, things), 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:pg27200:168:52
# text = It happened as a punishment to him, for having boasted so shockingly of things which were not true.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	shockingly	shockingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  | collar |  |  | as a punishment | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of things; shockingly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | things |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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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