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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 5

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One of the young volunteers, of whom, physically speaking, it might be said that he had a great head, was on guard that evening at the hospital.

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**Who acts:** Hospital · **What happens:** speak, say, have, be · **To what, where:** tale, great head, guard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hospital), 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:pg27200:43:5
# text = One of the young volunteers, of whom, physically speaking, it might be said that he had a great head, was on guard that evening at the hospital.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	physically	physically	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | physically *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | might · passive |  | tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Hospital | a great head |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | guard |  |  | tree rules |

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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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