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title: It happened once that Rudy had some business to settle at Bex. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened once that Rudy had some business to settle at Bex. Who acts: It, Rudy. 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 35

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It happened once that Rudy had some business to settle at Bex.

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**Who acts:** It, Rudy · **What happens:** happen, have, settle · **To what, where:** business, Bex

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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 (It, Rudy), 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:pg27200:55:35
# text = It happened once that Rudy had some business to settle at Bex.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bex	Bex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Rudy | some business |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | some business *not said here* |  | Bex |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bex=Location |

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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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