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title: Here was a well-known face at last--a round, friendly countenance, t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was a well-known face at last--a round, friendly countenance, the face of a good friend I had known at home. Who acts: I. 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 9

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Here was a well-known face at last--a round, friendly countenance, the face of a good friend I had known at home.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** known face, last, good friend, home

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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 (I), 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:pg27200:91:9
# text = Here was a well-known face at last--a round, friendly countenance, the face of a good friend I had known at home.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a known face and a round friendly countenance and the face of a good friend |  | last; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past · perfect | I | a good friend *not said here* |  | home |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |

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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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