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title: My strongest thought, who rules and reigns, is called by others 'The… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My strongest thought, who rules and reigns, is called by others 'The Man in the Mill.' A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 11

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My strongest thought, who rules and reigns, is called by others 'The Man in the Mill.'

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**What happens:** think, call · **To what, where:** others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:213:11
# text = My strongest thought, who rules and reigns, is called by others 'The Man in the Mill.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	reigns	reign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	_
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Mill	Mill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | others |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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