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title: In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech. Who acts: whole, old folks, old Dame. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 55

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In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.

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**Who acts:** whole, old folks, old Dame · **What happens:** respect, go off, not bear, make · **To what, where:** other, noise, brilliant speech

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, old folks, old Dame), 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:pg1597:20:55
# text = In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	respects	respect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Snail	Snail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | present |  |  |  | other |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go off** | past | the whole |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | the old folks | noise and merriment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | old Dame | a brilliant speech |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product |

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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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