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title: Certainly sooner than he expected--for all at once down he came from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly sooner than he expected--for all at once down he came from the top of the press, fell on the ground, and was broken to pieces. Who acts: play. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 33

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Certainly sooner than he expected--for all at once down he came from the top of the press, fell on the ground, and was broken to pieces.

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**Who acts:** play · **What happens:** expect, come, fall, break · **To what, where:** all, top, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play), 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:pg27200:90:33
# text = Certainly sooner than he expected--for all at once down he came from the top of the press, fell on the ground, and was broken to pieces.
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	nmod	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past | play | all |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | play |  |  | the top of the press |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | play *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 4 | **break** | past · passive | play *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to piece=Result |

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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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