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title: The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--buil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--built a new, a splendid mill, which answered its purpose. Who acts: family, new splendid 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 41

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The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--built a new, a splendid mill, which answered its purpose.

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**Who acts:** family, new splendid mill · **What happens:** build, answer, purpose · **To what, where:** new splendid mill, purpose

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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: who acts (family, new splendid mill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14849`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:213:41
# text = The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--built a new, a splendid mill, which answered its purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the miller's family | a new splendid mill |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mill=Product |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a new splendid mill | family's purpose |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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