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title: True, but it was this very place,' replied the woman, 'and it must h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: True, but it was this very place,' replied the woman, 'and it must have looked just like this. ' Who acts: church. 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 9

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True, but it was this very place,' replied the woman, 'and it must have looked just like this. '

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**Who acts:** church · **What happens:** be, reply, look · **To what, where:** True place, woman, church

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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 (church), 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:pg27200:96:9
# text = True, but it was this very place,' replied the woman, 'and it must have looked just like this. '
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | church | this True place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the woman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | must · perfect · passive |  | church |  |  |  | like this | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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