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title: The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dryad who lived in it was a child also. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 17

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The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dryad who lived in it was a child also.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** listen, live, be · **To what, where:** young chestnut tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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:pg27200:24:17
# text = The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dryad who lived in it was a child also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past · perfect · passive |  | the young chestnut tree |  |  |  | to the stories | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the Dryad | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | in a child | tree rules |

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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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