--- title: What happens so often:--the Flower had made a gauk of him, that was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: What happens so often:--the Flower had made a gauk of him, that was a jest; the girl had made a fool of him, that was no jest, she had, during the summer, chosen another friend. Who acts: that, flower, summer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, flower, summer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:177:68 # text = What happens so often:--the Flower had made a gauk of him, that was a jest; the girl had made a fool of him, that was no jest, she had, during the summer, chosen another friend. 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Flower Flower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gauk gauk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 jest jest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 jest jest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 during during ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 43 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 44 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the Flower | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gauk=Product | | 3 | **is a** | past | that | a jest | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the girl | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fool=Product | | 5 | **is a** | past | that | no jest | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | flower | | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **choose** | participle | the summer *not said here* | another friend | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/69/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)