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title: Could he confess to Babette, indeed, every thought which in the hour… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Could he confess to Babette, indeed, every thought which in the hour of temptation might have led him to wrong doing? Who acts: Rudy, thought. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 13

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Could he confess to Babette, indeed, every thought which in the hour of temptation might have led him to wrong doing?

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**Who acts:** Rudy, thought · **What happens:** confess, lead, do · **To what, where:** thought, Babette, Rudy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, thought), 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:pg27200:64:13
# text = Could he confess to Babette, indeed, every thought which in the hour of temptation might have led him to wrong doing?
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | could | Rudy | every thought | Babette |  |  | indeed *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to babette=Recipient |
| 2 | **lead** | might · perfect | every thought | Rudy |  |  | hour |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | every thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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