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title: It was quite an event, and all the town knew of it, so that it was n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was quite an event, and all the town knew of it, so that it was not necessary to announce it by beat of drum. Who acts: stranger, town. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 5

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It was quite an event, and all the town knew of it, so that it was not necessary to announce it by beat of drum.

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**Who acts:** stranger, town · **What happens:** be, know, not be, announce · **To what, where:** event, stranger

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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 (stranger, town), 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:pg27200:7:5
# text = It was quite an event, and all the town knew of it, so that it was not necessary to announce it by beat of drum.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | stranger | a event |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | all town |  |  |  |  | of stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | all town *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | stranger |  |  |  | by beat of drum | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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