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title: All descriptions of people visited at the merchant's house, well bor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All descriptions of people visited at the merchant's house, well born, as well as intellectual, and some who possessed neither of these recommendations. Who acts: descriptions, some. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 5

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All descriptions of people visited at the merchant's house, well born, as well as intellectual, and some who possessed neither of these recommendations.

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**Who acts:** descriptions, some · **What happens:** visit, bear, possess, describe · **To what, where:** house, neither, people

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descriptions, some), 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:pg27200:18:5
# text = All descriptions of people visited at the merchant's house, well born, as well as intellectual, and some who possessed neither of these recommendations.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	recommendations	recommendation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | all descriptions of people |  |  | the merchant's house |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | participle | all descriptions of people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **possess** | past | some | neither |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot neither=Theme |
| 4 | **describe** |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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