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title: She had come from Scotland, and was of high birth, and was rich in l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had come from Scotland, and was of high birth, and was rich in land and in gold--a bride worth winning, said more than one of the young gentlemen; and their lady mothers said the same thing. Who acts: company, lady mothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 7

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She had come from Scotland, and was of high birth, and was rich in land and in gold--a bride worth winning, said more than one of the young gentlemen; and their lady mothers said the same thing.

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**Who acts:** company, lady mothers · **What happens:** come, be, win, say · **To what, where:** Scotland, land, same thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, lady mothers), 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:pg27200:189:7
# text = She had come from Scotland, and was of high birth, and was rich in land and in gold--a bride worth winning, said more than one of the young gentlemen; and their lady mothers said the same thing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | company |  |  | Scotland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from scotland=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of high birth | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | land and gold and a bride |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | gentlemen's lady mothers | the same thing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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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