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title: They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really the heavenly body in which the old world people lived. Who acts: inhabitants, old world people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 76

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They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really the heavenly body in which the old world people lived.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, old world people · **What happens:** maintain, inhabit, be, live · **To what, where:** moon, heavenly body

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, old world people), 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:pg27200:42:76
# text = They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really the heavenly body in which the old world people lived.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **inhabit** | past · passive |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the heavenly body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | the old world people |  |  | the heavenly body |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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