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title: It was a good book; verses and songs by the old Danish poet, Ambrosi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a good book; verses and songs by the old Danish poet, Ambrosius Stub, which are well worth reading. Who acts: shelf, verses, old Danish poet. 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 74

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It was a good book; verses and songs by the old Danish poet, Ambrosius Stub, which are well worth reading.

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**Who acts:** shelf, verses, old Danish poet · **What happens:** be, verse · **To what, where:** good book, worth reading

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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 (shelf, verses, old Danish poet), 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:pg27200:177:74
# text = It was a good book; verses and songs by the old Danish poet, Ambrosius Stub, which are well worth reading.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Ambrosius	Ambrosius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Stub	Stub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 | shelf | a good book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | verses by the old Danish poet and songs and Ambrosius Stub and worth reading | worth reading |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **verse** |  | the old Danish poet |  |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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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