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title: So every now and then he had a present of gingerbread, and of course… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So every now and then he had a present of gingerbread, and of course Joanna always had a share. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 19

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So every now and then he had a present of gingerbread, and of course Joanna always had a share.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** present, share

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg27200:202:19
# text = So every now and then he had a present of gingerbread, and of course Joanna always had a share.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	fixed	_	_
16	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | man | a present of gingerbread |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | man *not said here* | a share |  |  |  | of Joanna; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=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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