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title: “Is this the Daily News of this evening?” he asked mechanically, as… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Is this the Daily News of this evening?” he asked mechanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper. Who acts: this, connection, Hostess. 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 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 107

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“Is this the Daily News of this evening?” he asked mechanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper.

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**Who acts:** this, connection, Hostess · **What happens:** be, ask, see, push · **To what, where:** Daily News, Hostess, large sheet · **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 (this, connection, Hostess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg1597:253`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:5:107
# text = “Is this the Daily News of this evening?” he asked mechanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Daily	Daily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	News	News	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	mechanically	mechanically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the Daily News |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | connection |  |  |  |  | mechanically *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | connection | the Hostess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push** | infinitive | the Hostess *not said here* | a large sheet of paper |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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