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title: Rudy could only feel that it was a place of execution. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy could only feel that it was a place of execution. Who acts: Rudy, poetry. 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 32

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Rudy could only feel that it was a place of execution.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, poetry · **What happens:** feel, be · **To what, where:** place

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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 (Rudy, poetry), 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:pg27200:61:32
# text = Rudy could only feel that it was a place of execution.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | could | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | poetry | a place |  |  |  | of execution | 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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