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title: It was Byron's poem, "The Prisoner of Chillon," translated into Fren… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Byron's poem, "The Prisoner of Chillon," translated into French, so that Babette could read it. Who acts: Englishman, 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 39

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It was Byron's poem, "The Prisoner of Chillon," translated into French, so that Babette could read it.

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**Who acts:** Englishman, Babette · **What happens:** be, translate, read · **To what, where:** poem, French, Englishman

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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 (Englishman, 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:pg27200:61:39
# text = It was Byron's poem, "The Prisoner of Chillon," translated into French, so that Babette could read it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Byron	Byron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prisoner	Prisoner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	appos	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Englishman | Byron's poem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into French *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into french=Result |
| 3 | **read** | could | Babette | Englishman |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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