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description: The people who live in the New Booths [*] have a much better name for her; they call her 'old Granny'--and she it is to whom you are to pay attention. Who acts: people, name. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 37

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The people who live in the New Booths \[\*\] have a much better name for her; they call her 'old Granny'--and she it is to whom you are to pay attention.

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**Who acts:** people, name · **What happens:** live, have, call, be, pay · **To what, where:** New Booths, better name, name, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, name), 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:pg1597:17:37
# text = The people who live in the New Booths [*] have a much better name for her; they call her 'old Granny'--and she it is to whom you are to pay attention.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Booths	Booth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the people |  |  | the New Booths |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | the people | a better name |  |  |  | for name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | present | people |  | name |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | name *not said here* | attention |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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