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title: The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter; so when her turn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter; so when her turn came, she saw what the others had not seen the first time they went up. Who acts: birthday, turn, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 54

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The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter; so when her turn came, she saw what the others had not seen the first time they went up.

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**Who acts:** birthday, turn, others · **What happens:** occur, come, see, not see, go up · **To what, where:** others, first time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, turn, others), 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:pg27200:75:54
# text = The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter; so when her turn came, she saw what the others had not seen the first time they went up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | the fifth sister's birthday |  |  |  | winter |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | birthday's turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the others |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go up** | past | others *= other* | the first time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient time=Extent |

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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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