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title: “I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?” Who acts: leave, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 101

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“I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?”

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**Who acts:** leave, you · **What happens:** feel, have, send, take · **To what, where:** goodness, leave, Christianshafen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, you), 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:pg1597:5:101
# text = “I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	hackney	hackney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Christianshafen	Christianshafen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present · perfect | your leave *= leave* |  |  |  |  | queer *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | would | you | the goodness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the goodness *not said here* |  |  |  | for a hackney coach | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your leave *= leave* | Christianshafen |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to christianshafen=Destination |

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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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