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title: “This is rather too bad,” thought he, “that I must say YOU and he sa… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is rather too bad,” thought he, “that I must say YOU and he say THOU,” but he was now obliged to put up with it. Who acts: This, I, master. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 195

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“This is rather too bad,” thought he, “that I must say YOU and he say THOU,” but he was now obliged to put up with it.

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**Who acts:** This, I, master · **What happens:** be, think, say, oblige, put up · **To what, where:** master, YOU, THOU · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, master), 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:pg1597:23:195
# text = “This is rather too bad,” thought he, “that I must say YOU and he say THOU,” but he was now obliged to put up with it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	THOU	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | master |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | I | YOU |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | master | THOU |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thou=Topic |
| 5 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | master |  |  | now |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **put up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with other | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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