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title: Any one was at liberty to make her an offer; were he a prince or a b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Any one was at liberty to make her an offer; were he a prince or a beggar, it mattered not to her. Who acts: one, landlord, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 28

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Any one was at liberty to make her an offer; were he a prince or a beggar, it mattered not to her.

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**Who acts:** one, landlord, it · **What happens:** be, make, not matter · **To what, where:** liberty, offer, Heaven, prince

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, landlord, it), 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:pg27200:197:28
# text = Any one was at liberty to make her an offer; were he a prince or a beggar, it mattered not to her.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | any one |  |  | liberty |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a offer | Heaven |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary offer=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | past | landlord | a prince or a beggar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **matter** | past | it |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer |

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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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