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title: There was one street which Rudy thought the prettiest of them all; i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was one street which Rudy thought the prettiest of them all; it had been built since he had visited the town when a little boy. Who acts: one street. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 113

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There was one street which Rudy thought the prettiest of them all; it had been built since he had visited the town when a little boy.

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**Who acts:** one street · **What happens:** be, think, build, visit · **To what, where:** course, Rudy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one street), 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:pg27200:55:113
# text = There was one street which Rudy thought the prettiest of them all; it had been built since he had visited the town when a little boy.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one street |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | one street |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | course |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **visit** | past · perfect · passive |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  | 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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