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title: Once more only, and for the last time, must she venture to the churc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more only, and for the last time, must she venture to the churchyard and pluck a few handfuls. Who acts: Eliza. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 6

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Once more only, and for the last time, must she venture to the churchyard and pluck a few handfuls.

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**Who acts:** Eliza · **What happens:** venture, pluck · **To what, where:** churchyard, few handfuls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza), 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:pg27200:210:6
# text = Once more only, and for the last time, must she venture to the churchyard and pluck a few handfuls.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pluck	pluck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | must | Eliza |  | the churchyard |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to churchyard=Recipient |
| 2 | **pluck** | present | Eliza *not said here* | a few handfuls |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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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