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title: So these two geniuses prepared themselves a full week for the wooing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So these two geniuses prepared themselves a full week for the wooing--this was the longest time that could be granted them; but it was enough, for they had had much preparatory information, and everybody knows how useful that is. Who acts: two geniuses, this, wooing, geniuses. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 3

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So these two geniuses prepared themselves a full week for the wooing--this was the longest time that could be granted them; but it was enough, for they had had much preparatory information, and everybody knows how useful that is.

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**Who acts:** two geniuses, this, wooing, geniuses, everybody, that · **What happens:** prepare, be, grant, have, know · **To what, where:** geniuses, longest time, much preparatory information · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two geniuses, this, wooing, geniuses), 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:pg27200:28:3
# text = So these two geniuses prepared themselves a full week for the wooing--this was the longest time that could be granted them; but it was enough, for they had had much preparatory information, and everybody knows how useful that is.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	geniuses	genius	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	parataxis	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	preparatory	preparatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
40	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
42	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	ccomp	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past | this two geniuses | geniuses *= genius* |  |  | week | for the wooing | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Product for wooing=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | the longest time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** | could · passive |  | the longest time |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | wooing |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past · perfect | geniuses *= genius* | much preparatory information |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Patient |
| 6 | **know** | present | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | 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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