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title: "Who may that young stranger be?" was the inquiry on all sides. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Who may that young stranger be?" was the inquiry on all sides. " Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 129

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"Who may that young stranger be?" was the inquiry on all sides. "

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** inquiry, sides

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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 (you), 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:pg27200:55:129
# text = "Who may that young stranger be?" was the inquiry on all sides. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | the inquiry |  | all sides |  |  | 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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