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title: He composed many complete figures, forming different words, but ther… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He composed many complete figures, forming different words, but there was one word he never could manage to form, although he wished it very much. Who acts: Kay, one word. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened Ther
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 13

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He composed many complete figures, forming different words, but there was one word he never could manage to form, although he wished it very much.

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**Who acts:** Kay, one word · **What happens:** compose, form, be, not manage, not form, wish · **To what, where:** many complete figures, different words, one word, piece

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, one word), 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:pg27200:176:13
# text = He composed many complete figures, forming different words, but there was one word he never could manage to form, although he wished it very much.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | past | Kay | many complete figures |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Result |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | Kay *not said here* | different words |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | one word |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **manage** | could | Kay | one word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **form** | to-infinitive | Kay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wish** | past | Kay | piece |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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