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title: In former times I had the finest fish, and now I have fresh rosy-che… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In former times I had the finest fish, and now I have fresh rosy-cheeked boys at the bottom of the bottle, who learn wisdom, Hebrew, Greek--Croak!” Who acts: I, fresh cheeked boys. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 68

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In former times I had the finest fish, and now I have fresh rosy-cheeked boys at the bottom of the bottle, who learn wisdom, Hebrew, Greek--Croak!”

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**Who acts:** I, fresh cheeked boys · **What happens:** have, cheek, learn · **To what, where:** finest fish, fresh cheeked boys, bottom, wisdom

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fresh cheeked boys), 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:pg1597:25:68
# text = In former times I had the finest fish, and now I have fresh rosy-cheeked boys at the bottom of the bottle, who learn wisdom, Hebrew, Greek--Croak!”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cheeked	cheek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
28	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | the finest fish |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | fresh cheeked boys |  | the bottom of the bottle | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 3 | **cheek** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | present | fresh cheeked boys | wisdom |  |  |  | Hebrew and Greek *vocative* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |

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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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