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title: He was also such a famous partner in dancing, that the girls often d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was also such a famous partner in dancing, that the girls often dreamt about him, and one and another thought of him even when awake. Who acts: Rudy, girls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 18

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He was also such a famous partner in dancing, that the girls often dreamt about him, and one and another thought of him even when awake.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, girls · **What happens:** be, dreamt, think · **To what, where:** famous partner, dancing, 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 (Rudy, girls), 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:pg27200:55:18
# text = He was also such a famous partner in dancing, that the girls often dreamt about him, and one and another thought of him even when awake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rudy | such famous partner |  | dancing |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dreamt** | present | the girls |  |  |  |  | about Rudy; often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** |  |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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