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title: It was only another storey over him, but that was "something," Now h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was only another storey over him, but that was "something," Now he was dead, like the three other brothers. Who acts: monument, that, widow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 153

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It was only another storey over him, but that was "something," Now he was dead, like the three other brothers.

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**Who acts:** monument, that, widow · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** storey, something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monument, that, widow), 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:pg27200:177:153
# text = It was only another storey over him, but that was "something," Now he was dead, like the three other brothers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | monument | another storey |  |  |  | over widow | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | widow |  |  |  | now | dead *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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