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title: The modern era of martsipan in Tallinn began in 1806, when the Swiss… — Tallinn · tree and pragmatics
description: The modern era of martsipan in Tallinn began in 1806, when the Swiss confectioner Lorenz Caviezel set up his confectionery on Pikk Street. Who acts: modern era, Swiss confectioner. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tallinn» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tallinn, sentence 249

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From Wikipedia, [«Tallinn»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The modern era of martsipan in Tallinn began in 1806, when the Swiss confectioner Lorenz Caviezel set up his confectionery on Pikk Street.

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**Who acts:** modern era, Swiss confectioner · **What happens:** begin, set up · **To what, where:** 1806, confectionery, Pikk Street

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (modern era, Swiss confectioner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Tallinn:249
# text = The modern era of martsipan in Tallinn began in 1806, when the Swiss confectioner Lorenz Caviezel set up his confectionery on Pikk Street.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	martsipan	martsipan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1806	1806	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Lorenz	Lorenz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Caviezel	Caviezel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	confectionery	confectionery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Pikk	Pikk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the modern era of martsipan in Tallinn |  |  | 1806 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set up** | past | the Swiss confectioner | confectioner's confectionery |  | Pikk Street |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent confectionery=Theme on street=Destination |

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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:** the English Wikipedia, «Tallinn», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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