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title: A new poem, entitled "My Aunt's Spectacles," was being recited. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A new poem, entitled "My Aunt's Spectacles," was being recited. Who acts: new poem. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 33

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A new poem, entitled "My Aunt's Spectacles," was being recited.

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**Who acts:** new poem · **What happens:** entitle, recite · **To what, where:** Spectacles, new poem

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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 (new poem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:3159`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:43:33
# text = A new poem, entitled "My Aunt's Spectacles," was being recited.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entitle** | participle | a new poem *not said here* | My Aunt's Spectacles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recite** | past · progressive · passive |  | a new poem |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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