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title: The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard elfin puddings with glow-worms. Who acts: third, daughter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 77

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The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard elfin puddings with glow-worms.

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**Who acts:** third, daughter · **What happens:** be, learn, witch, lard · **To what, where:** different sort, brew house, elfin puddings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, daughter), 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:pg27200:31:77
# text = The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard elfin puddings with glow-worms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	brew	brew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	witch	witch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	lard	lard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	elfin	elfin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the third |  |  |  |  | of quite different sort | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past · perfect | daughter | quite different sort *not said here* |  | the brew house of the moor |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic |
| 3 | **witch** | infinitive | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lard** | to-infinitive | daughter *not said here* | elfin puddings |  |  |  | with glow worms | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pudding=Destination with worm=Theme |

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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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