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title: They had only lately arrived, yet the miller had paid them a visit,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had only lately arrived, yet the miller had paid them a visit, and informed them of Babette's engagement to Rudy. Who acts: godmother, Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 2

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They had only lately arrived, yet the miller had paid them a visit, and informed them of Babette's engagement to Rudy.

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**Who acts:** godmother, Babette · **What happens:** arrive, pay, inform, engage · **To what, where:** miller, godmother

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, 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:pg27200:61:2
# text = They had only lately arrived, yet the miller had paid them a visit, and informed them of Babette's engagement to Rudy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | godmother |  |  |  |  | lately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past · perfect · passive |  | the miller |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | godmother *not said here* |  | godmother |  |  | of Babette's engagement to Rudy | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of engagement=Topic |
| 4 | **engage** |  | Babette |  |  |  |  | to Rudy | nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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