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title: So far all had passed off very well; but now one of the citizens beg… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So far all had passed off very well; but now one of the citizens began to speak of a terrible pestilence which had been raging a few years before, meaning the plague of 1484. Who acts: one, terrible pestilence. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 95

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So far all had passed off very well; but now one of the citizens began to speak of a terrible pestilence which had been raging a few years before, meaning the plague of 1484.

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**Who acts:** one, terrible pestilence · **What happens:** pass off, begin, speak, rage, mean · **To what, where:** all, plague · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, terrible pestilence), 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:pg27200:41:95
# text = So far all had passed off very well; but now one of the citizens began to speak of a terrible pestilence which had been raging a few years before, meaning the plague of 1484.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	1484	1484	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **pass off** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  |  | far, well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | one of the citizens |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | one of the citizens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a terrible pestilence | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rage** | past · perfect · progressive | a terrible pestilence |  |  |  | year | before *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | gerund | a terrible pestilence *not said here* | the plague of 1484 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Topic |

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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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