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title: And the ant-queen remarked that their conduct that day showed that t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the ant-queen remarked that their conduct that day showed that they possessed kind hearts and good understanding. ' Who acts: ant queen, burdens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 32

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And the ant-queen remarked that their conduct that day showed that they possessed kind hearts and good understanding. '

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**Who acts:** ant queen, burdens · **What happens:** remark, show, possess, conduct · **To what, where:** ant queen, kind hearts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ant queen, burdens), 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:pg27200:180:32
# text = And the ant-queen remarked that their conduct that day showed that they possessed kind hearts and good understanding. '
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the ant queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | the ant queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **possess** | past | burdens *= burden* | kind hearts and good understanding |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme |
| 4 | **conduct** |  | burdens *= burden* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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