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title: And she nodded in such a friendly way at the company, that each imag… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And she nodded in such a friendly way at the company, that each imagined himself to be the favored person who was to accompany them to Italy. " Who acts: Charming, that, favored person. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 34

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And she nodded in such a friendly way at the company, that each imagined himself to be the favored person who was to accompany them to Italy. "

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**Who acts:** Charming, that, favored person · **What happens:** nod, imagine, favor, be · **To what, where:** gentleman, favored person, Italy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, that, favored 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:pg27200:7:34
# text = And she nodded in such a friendly way at the company, that each imagined himself to be the favored person who was to accompany them to Italy. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	appos	_	_
15	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	favored	favor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | past | Charming |  |  |  |  | at the company; in such friendly way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | past | that | gentleman |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 3 | **favor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | the favored person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the favored person |  | Italy |  |  | accompany *property* | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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