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title: Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick'… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick's Hospital is like; but as most probably a few of those who read this little tale may not reside in Copenhagen, we will give a short description of it. Who acts: inhabitant, little tale, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 1

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Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick's Hospital is like; but as most probably a few of those who read this little tale may not reside in Copenhagen, we will give a short description of it.

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**Who acts:** inhabitant, little tale, we · **What happens:** know, read, not reside, give, describe · **To what, where:** Copenhagen, short description, tale

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitant, little tale, we), 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:pg27200:43:1
# text = Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick's Hospital is like; but as most probably a few of those who read this little tale may not reside in Copenhagen, we will give a short description of it.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Hospital	Hospital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	reside	reside	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
35	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | every inhabitant of Copenhagen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **read** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **reside** | may | this little tale |  |  | Copenhagen |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in copenhagen=Location |
| 4 | **give** | future | we | a short description of tale |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 5 | **describe** |  |  | tale |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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