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title: Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that W… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that William Tell and Holger Danske never really lived, but yet live in popular story, like the lake yonder, a living evidence for such myths. Who acts: man, William. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 68

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Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that William Tell and Holger Danske never really lived, but yet live in popular story, like the lake yonder, a living evidence for such myths.

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**Who acts:** man, William · **What happens:** think, read, tell, not live, live · **To what, where:** town, Holger, popular story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, William), 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:pg27200:211:68
# text = Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that William Tell and Holger Danske never really lived, but yet live in popular story, like the lake yonder, a living evidence for such myths.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
35	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the man |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | past · perfect · progressive | man |  |  | the town |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | William |  | Holger |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent holger=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **live** | past | William *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | popular story | yet |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location |

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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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