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title: His power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fort… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fortune favoured his deeds. Who acts: fortune, his. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 4

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His power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fortune favoured his deeds.

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**Who acts:** fortune, his · **What happens:** increase, fear, favour, name · **To what, where:** power, deeds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, his), 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:pg27200:207:4
# text = His power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fortune favoured his deeds.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | participle |  | His power and his name *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fear** | past · passive |  | His power and his name |  |  |  | by all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **favour** | past | fortune | fortune's deeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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