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title: Nothing was seen or heard of the fourth, although the day of decisio… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing was seen or heard of the fourth, although the day of decision was close at hand. " Who acts: day. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 25

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Nothing was seen or heard of the fourth, although the day of decision was close at hand. "

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**Who acts:** day · **What happens:** see, hear, be · **To what, where:** Nothing, hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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:pg27200:178:25
# text = Nothing was seen or heard of the fourth, although the day of decision was close at hand. "
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of the fourth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fourth=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the day of decision |  |  | hand |  | close *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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