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title: He was determined not to play the dumb lover as both the gingerbread… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was determined not to play the dumb lover as both the gingerbread cakes had done; the story was a good lesson to him. Who acts: nearer, story. 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 ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 58

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He was determined not to play the dumb lover as both the gingerbread cakes had done; the story was a good lesson to him.

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**Who acts:** nearer, story · **What happens:** be, not play, do · **To what, where:** dumb lover, gingerbread cakes, good lesson, nearer

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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 (nearer, story), 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:pg27200:202:58
# text = He was determined not to play the dumb lover as both the gingerbread cakes had done; the story was a good lesson to him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | nearer *= near* |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | nearer *= near* *not said here* | the dumb lover |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the gingerbread cakes |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the story | a good lesson | nearer *= near* |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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