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title: She took eight days to perform the journey; but that was just as it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She took eight days to perform the journey; but that was just as it ought to be; for it showed her to be one of the right breeding. Who acts: forest, journey. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 47

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She took eight days to perform the journey; but that was just as it ought to be; for it showed her to be one of the right breeding.

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**Who acts:** forest, journey · **What happens:** take, perform, show, be · **To what, where:** journey, forest, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, journey), 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:pg27200:48:47
# text = She took eight days to perform the journey; but that was just as it ought to be; for it showed her to be one of the right breeding.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	det	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | forest |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | forest *not said here* | the journey |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | journey |  | forest |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | forest *not said here* | show one |  |  |  | of the right breeding | 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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