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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 7

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This person, moreover, maintained that he belonged to a very old family in the land of Egypt, and that he was highly esteemed there.

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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** maintain, belong, esteem · **To what, where:** land, person

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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:pg27200:68:7
# text = This person, moreover, maintained that he belonged to a very old family in the land of Egypt, and that he was highly esteemed there.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | past | this person |  |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** | past | person |  |  | the land of Egypt |  | to a old family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **esteem** | past · passive |  | person |  | there |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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