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title: They acknowledged also that some of the stories were very well told;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They acknowledged also that some of the stories were very well told; but that the whole could have been managed differently. " Who acts: thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 19

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They acknowledged also that some of the stories were very well told; but that the whole could have been managed differently. "

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**Who acts:** thoughts · **What happens:** acknowledge, tell, manage · **To what, where:** some, whole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts), 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:pg27200:182:19
# text = They acknowledged also that some of the stories were very well told; but that the whole could have been managed differently. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | past | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | some |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **manage** | could · perfect · passive |  | the whole |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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