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title: A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out. Who acts: coronet, turf. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 12

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A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out.

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**Who acts:** coronet, turf · **What happens:** sparkle, not speak out · **To what, where:** count, coronet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coronet, turf), 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:pg27200:97:12
# text = A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	coronet	coronet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sparkles	sparkle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sparkle** | present | a count's coronet |  |  | count |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=Location |
| 2 | **not** **speak out** *speech: other* | past · do-support | turf | coronet |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |

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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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