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title: And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 59

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And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** invite, know, sort · **To what, where:** dust, sort, thing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg27200:194:59
# text = And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past · passive |  | dust |  |  |  | to the concert in the evening and the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices *obl* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** | present | we | the sort of thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | thing |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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