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title: The miller was rich, and, on that account, Babette stood very high,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The miller was rich, and, on that account, Babette stood very high, and was rather difficult to aspire to. Who acts: miller, Babette. 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 32

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The miller was rich, and, on that account, Babette stood very high, and was rather difficult to aspire to.

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**Who acts:** miller, Babette · **What happens:** be, stand, aspire · **To what, where:** account

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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 (miller, Babette), 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:pg27200:55:32
# text = The miller was rich, and, on that account, Babette stood very high, and was rather difficult to aspire to.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	aspire	aspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the miller |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Babette |  |  | that account |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on account=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **aspire** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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