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title: Babette was just thinking of preparing some trout to set before him. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Babette was just thinking of preparing some trout to set before him. Who acts: Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 2

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Babette was just thinking of preparing some trout to set before him.

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**Who acts:** Babette · **What happens:** think, prepare, set · **To what, where:** trout

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:62:2
# text = Babette was just thinking of preparing some trout to set before him.
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | gerund | Babette *not said here* | some trout |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | Babette *not said here* | some trout *not said here* |  |  | before Babette |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |

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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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