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title: "But how do you know all this?" asked the child whom the angel was c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But how do you know all this?" asked the child whom the angel was carrying to heaven. Who acts: you, child, angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 34

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"But how do you know all this?" asked the child whom the angel was carrying to heaven.

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**Who acts:** you, child, angel · **What happens:** know, ask, carry · **To what, where:** this, child, heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, child, angel), 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:pg27200:4:34
# text = "But how do you know all this?" asked the child whom the angel was carrying to heaven.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | past · progressive | the angel | the child |  | heaven |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to heaven=Destination |

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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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