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title: Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night, or on that same evening. " Who acts: MOON. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 15

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Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night, or on that same evening. "

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**Who acts:** MOON · **What happens:** appear, tell, see · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MOON), 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:pg27200:91:15
# text = Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night, or on that same evening. "
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | MOON |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | MOON |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | MOON |  |  |  | evening; night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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