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title: But for all that you can say, my grandson died upon the throne of Fr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But for all that you can say, my grandson died upon the throne of France. Who acts: you, grandson. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 11

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But for all that you can say, my grandson died upon the throne of France.

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**Who acts:** you, grandson · **What happens:** say, die · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grandson), 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:pg27200:96:11
# text = But for all that you can say, my grandson died upon the throne of France.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past | my grandson |  |  |  |  | upon the throne of France | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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