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title: But she was not the Story of which the man was in search; that she c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was not the Story of which the man was in search; that she could attest with a Christian certificate of baptism and of vaccination that lay in her drawer. Who acts: woman, vaccination. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Tow
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 53

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But she was not the Story of which the man was in search; that she could attest with a Christian certificate of baptism and of vaccination that lay in her drawer.

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**Who acts:** woman, vaccination · **What happens:** not be, attest, lie, certificate · **To what, where:** search, drawer, baptism

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, vaccination), 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:pg27200:211:53
# text = But she was not the Story of which the man was in search; that she could attest with a Christian certificate of baptism and of vaccination that lay in her drawer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	attest	attest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	certificate	certificate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | woman |  |  | search |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attest** | could | woman |  |  |  |  | with a Christian certificate of baptism and vaccination | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past | vaccination |  |  | woman's drawer |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location |
| 4 | **certificate** |  |  | baptism |  |  |  |  | nom certificate «communication transitive»: of=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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