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title: As a little boy he had seen all these fine doings in their greatest… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As a little boy he had seen all these fine doings in their greatest pomp. Who acts: grandpapa. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 14

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As a little boy he had seen all these fine doings in their greatest pomp.

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**Who acts:** grandpapa · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** fine doings, greatest pomp

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandpapa), 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:pg27200:184:14
# text = As a little boy he had seen all these fine doings in their greatest pomp.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | grandpapa | all fine doings |  | doings's greatest pomp |  | as a little boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer doing=Stimulus as boy=Attribute |

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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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