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title: Babette opened the window in alarm, and called Rudy's name; she told… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Babette opened the window in alarm, and called Rudy's name; she told him to go away, she did not wish him to remain there. Who acts: Babette, dreadful, Rudy. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 31

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Babette opened the window in alarm, and called Rudy's name; she told him to go away, she did not wish him to remain there.

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**Who acts:** Babette, dreadful, Rudy · **What happens:** open, call, tell, go away, not wish, remain · **To what, where:** window, alarm, name, Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, dreadful, Rudy), 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:pg27200:62:31
# text = Babette opened the window in alarm, and called Rudy's name; she told him to go away, she did not wish him to remain there.
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Babette | the window |  | alarm |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme in alarm=Location |
| 2 | **call** | past | Babette *not said here* | Rudy's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | dreadful |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | dreadful *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | dreadful |  | Rudy |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | dreadful *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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