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title: Rudy thought for a moment of what had been told him, that he and his… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy thought for a moment of what had been told him, that he and his mother had once lain buried in one of these cold, heart-chilling fissures; but he soon banished such thoughts, and looked upon the story as fabulous, like many other stories which had been told him. Who acts: Rudy. A sentence of «F
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 40

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Rudy thought for a moment of what had been told him, that he and his mother had once lain buried in one of these cold, heart-chilling fissures; but he soon banished such thoughts, and looked upon the story as fabulous, like many other stories which had been told him.

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**Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** think, tell, lie, bury, banish, look · **To what, where:** Rudy, such thoughts, many other stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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:pg27200:53:40
# text = Rudy thought for a moment of what had been told him, that he and his mother had once lain buried in one of these cold, heart-chilling fissures; but he soon banished such thoughts, and looked upon the story as fabulous, like many other stories which had been told him.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	chilling	chilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fissures	fissure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	banished	banish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	parataxis	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Rudy |  |  |  | moment |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: he=Recipient |
| 3 | **lie** | past · perfect · passive |  | Rudy |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in one of this cold chilling fissures | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination |
| 5 | **banish** | past | Rudy | such thoughts |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the story; as fabulous | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon story=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | many other stories | Rudy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |

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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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