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title: Rudy allowed himself to be kissed; but it could be seen by his count… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy allowed himself to be kissed; but it could be seen by his countenance that he only endured the infliction as a homely duty. Who acts: Rudy, countenance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 4

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Rudy allowed himself to be kissed; but it could be seen by his countenance that he only endured the infliction as a homely duty.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, countenance · **What happens:** allow, kiss, see, endure · **To what, where:** Rudy, luck, infliction

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, countenance), 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:pg27200:57:4
# text = Rudy allowed himself to be kissed; but it could be seen by his countenance that he only endured the infliction as a homely duty.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	endured	endure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	infliction	infliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	homely	homely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | Rudy | Rudy |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kiss** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **see** | could · passive | Rudy's countenance | luck |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **endure** | past | Rudy | the infliction |  |  |  | as a homely duty | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme infliction=Circumstance |

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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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