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title: Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book whic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him. Who acts: nephew, violence, slightest thing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 25

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Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him.

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**Who acts:** nephew, violence, slightest thing · **What happens:** be, intend, burn, give, remain, remind · **To what, where:** fop, book, violence

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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 (nephew, violence, slightest thing), 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:pg27200:64:25
# text = Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fop	fop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | violence's godmother's nephew | a fop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | past | violence | a fop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | violence *not said here* | the book |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the book | violence |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | should | the slightest thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the slightest thing *not said here* |  | violence |  |  | of Rudy | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of he=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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