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title: But what was more wonderful was that, when one put a finger into the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But what was more wonderful was that, when one put a finger into the steam rising from the pot, one could at once smell what meals they were preparing on every fire in the whole town. Who acts: one, steam, meals. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 32

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But what was more wonderful was that, when one put a finger into the steam rising from the pot, one could at once smell what meals they were preparing on every fire in the whole town.

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**Who acts:** one, steam, meals · **What happens:** be, put, rise, smell, prepare · **To what, where:** finger, steam, pot, fire

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, steam, meals), 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:pg27200:188:32
# text = But what was more wonderful was that, when one put a finger into the steam rising from the pot, one could at once smell what meals they were preparing on every fire in the whole town.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
28	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | past | one | a finger |  | the steam |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the steam *not said here* |  |  | the pot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pot=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **smell** | could | one |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** | past · progressive | meals |  |  | every fire |  | in the whole town | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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