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title: The three were invited to come to Montreux; it was but right for Bab… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The three were invited to come to Montreux; it was but right for Babette to become acquainted with her godmother, who wished to see her very much. Who acts: three, it, godmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 4

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The three were invited to come to Montreux; it was but right for Babette to become acquainted with her godmother, who wished to see her very much.

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**Who acts:** three, it, godmother · **What happens:** invite, come, be, become, wish, see · **To what, where:** three, Montreux, Babette

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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 (three, it, godmother), 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:pg27200:61:4
# text = The three were invited to come to Montreux; it was but right for Babette to become acquainted with her godmother, who wished to see her very much.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
18	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past · passive |  | the three |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the three *not said here* |  |  | Montreux |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to montreux=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | for Babette; right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | acquainted *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **wish** | past | Babette's godmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Babette's godmother *not said here* | Babette |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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