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title: He often talked of his adventures, and the mamma was as simple and e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He often talked of his adventures, and the mamma was as simple and eager in her questions as on the first evening they met. Who acts: power, mamma, waters, name. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 52

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He often talked of his adventures, and the mamma was as simple and eager in her questions as on the first evening they met.

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**Who acts:** power, mamma, waters, name · **What happens:** talk, be, meet, adventure, question · **To what, where:** questions, first evening

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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 (power, mamma, waters, name), 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:pg27200:7:52
# text = He often talked of his adventures, and the mamma was as simple and eager in her questions as on the first evening they met.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | power |  |  |  |  | of power's adventures; often *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mamma |  |  | name's questions | evening | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the mamma *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | past | waters *= water* | the first evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **adventure** |  | power |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **question** |  | name |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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