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title: It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him was of great importance. Who acts: critic, opportunity, last word. 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 155

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It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him was of great importance.

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**Who acts:** critic, opportunity, last word · **What happens:** give, have, be · **To what, where:** opportunity, widow, last word

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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 (critic, opportunity, last 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:pg27200:177:155
# text = It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him was of great importance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | critic | the opportunity | widow |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the opportunity *not said here* | the last word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the last word |  |  |  |  | of great importance | 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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