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title: That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and pur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and purchase a share in the tan-yard from the window. Who acts: That, whoever, story. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 30

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That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and purchase a share in the tan-yard from the window.

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**Who acts:** That, whoever, story · **What happens:** be, not understand, go, purchase · **To what, where:** story, share, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, whoever, story), 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:pg27200:47:30
# text = That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and purchase a share in the tan-yard from the window.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | the story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | may | story |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **purchase** | infinitive | story *not said here* | a share |  | the window |  | in the tan yard | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent share=Theme from window=Source |

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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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