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title: He had been born too late--everything had been taken up before he ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been born too late--everything had been taken up before he came into the world, and everything had been written and told about. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 4

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He had been born too late--everything had been taken up before he came into the world, and everything had been written and told about.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** bear, take up, come, write, tell · **To what, where:** man, everything, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. 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:pg27200:206:4
# text = He had been born too late--everything had been taken up before he came into the world, and everything had been written and told about.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	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 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  | late *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take up** | past · perfect · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **write** | past · perfect · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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