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title: “Oh no,” answered the Councillor, “I can only join in conversation o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh no,” answered the Councillor, “I can only join in conversation on this topic and on that, as indeed one must do according to the demands of the world at present.” Who acts: Councillor, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependenc
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 115

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“Oh no,” answered the Councillor, “I can only join in conversation on this topic and on that, as indeed one must do according to the demands of the world at present.”

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**Who acts:** Councillor, one · **What happens:** answer, join, do, accord, demand · **To what, where:** conversation, that, world · **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 (Councillor, one), 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:pg1597:5:115
# text = “Oh no,” answered the Councillor, “I can only join in conversation on this topic and on that, as indeed one must do according to the demands of the world at present.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Councillor |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** *in a quote* | can | the Councillor *= councillor* |  |  | conversation |  | on this topic | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on topic=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | must | one |  |  | that |  | accord the demands of the world; at present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **demand** *in a quote* |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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