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title: He alone knew what the newly-married couple would receive from Babet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He alone knew what the newly-married couple would receive from Babette's godmother, and he knew also that it was a wedding present well worth a concession. Who acts: arrangement, married couple, couple. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 35

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He alone knew what the newly-married couple would receive from Babette's godmother, and he knew also that it was a wedding present well worth a concession.

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**Who acts:** arrangement, married couple, couple · **What happens:** know, marry, receive, be · **To what, where:** godmother, wedding present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (arrangement, married couple, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4631`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:64:35
# text = He alone knew what the newly-married couple would receive from Babette's godmother, and he knew also that it was a wedding present well worth a concession.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	concession	concession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | arrangement |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **marry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | would | the married couple |  |  | Babette's godmother |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from godmother=Source |
| 4 | **know** | past | arrangement |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | couple | a wedding present |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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