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title: “'Yes, can't you remember when we were very little,' said the old se… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “'Yes, can't you remember when we were very little,' said the old seaman, 'and ran and played about? Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 44

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“'Yes, can't you remember when we were very little,' said the old seaman, 'and ran and played about?

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** not remember, be, say, run, play about · **To what, where:** old seaman · **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 (you, we), 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:pg1597:17:44
# text = “'Yes, can't you remember when we were very little,' said the old seaman, 'and ran and played about?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	seaman	seaman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remember** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  | the old seaman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **play about** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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