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title: This was how the world treated Anne Lisbeth's boy, and how could it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was how the world treated Anne Lisbeth's boy, and how could it be otherwise. Who acts: This, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 18

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This was how the world treated Anne Lisbeth's boy, and how could it be otherwise.

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**Who acts:** This, world · **What happens:** be, treat · **To what, where:** world, boy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, world), 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:pg27200:5:18
# text = This was how the world treated Anne Lisbeth's boy, and how could it be otherwise.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | participle |  | the world *not said here* | Anne's boy |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | could | world |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | 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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