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title: This was the first time Rudy had ever heard of France, or of Lyons,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the first time Rudy had ever heard of France, or of Lyons, that great city on the Rhone where his uncle had once lived. Who acts: This, first time, uncle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 23

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This was the first time Rudy had ever heard of France, or of Lyons, that great city on the Rhone where his uncle had once lived.

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**Who acts:** This, first time, uncle · **What happens:** be, hear, live · **To what, where:** first time, Rudy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, first time, uncle), 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:pg27200:54:23
# text = This was the first time Rudy had ever heard of France, or of Lyons, that great city on the Rhone where his uncle had once lived.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Lyons	lyon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive | the first time *not said here* | Rudy |  |  | ever | of France | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | past · perfect | Rudy's uncle |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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