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title: “Modestia is a fine virtue,” continued the gentleman; “however, as t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Modestia is a fine virtue,” continued the gentleman; “however, as to your speech, I must say mihi secus videtur: yet I am willing to suspend my judicium.” Who acts: Modestia, fine virtue, Councillor, your. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 116

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“Modestia is a fine virtue,” continued the gentleman; “however, as to your speech, I must say mihi secus videtur: yet I am willing to suspend my judicium.”

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**Who acts:** Modestia, fine virtue, Councillor, your · **What happens:** be, continue, say, suspend, speak · **To what, where:** fine virtue, gentleman, mihi secus videtur, judicium · **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 (Modestia, fine virtue, Councillor, your), 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:pg1597:5:116
# text = “Modestia is a fine virtue,” continued the gentleman; “however, as to your speech, I must say mihi secus videtur: yet I am willing to suspend my judicium.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Modestia	Modestia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	mihi	mihi	X	FW	_	26	compound	_	_
25	secus	secus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	videtur	videtur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	suspend	suspend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	judicium	judicium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 | Modestia | a fine virtue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | a fine virtue | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | the Councillor *= councillor* | mihi secus videtur |  |  |  | as your speech; however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent videtur=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Councillor *= councillor* |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **suspend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Councillor *= councillor* *not said here* | my judicium |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judicium=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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