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title: He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his syste… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his system of botany, nor could he possibly find out to what class it did belong. " Who acts: professor, knowledge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 12

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He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his system of botany, nor could he possibly find out to what class it did belong. "

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**Who acts:** professor, knowledge · **What happens:** examine, test, not belong, find out, belong · **To what, where:** plant, class

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor, knowledge), 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:pg27200:49:12
# text = He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his system of botany, nor could he possibly find out to what class it did belong. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	botany	botany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
27	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | professor |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **test** | past | professor *not said here* | the plant |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **belong** | past · do-support | knowledge |  |  |  |  | to professor's system of botany | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find out** | could | professor |  |  |  |  | to class; possibly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **belong** | past · do-support | knowledge | class *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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