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title: “I am a Bachelor in Theologia,” answered the gentleman with a stiff… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am a Bachelor in Theologia,” answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence. Who acts: Bachelor. 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 118

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“I am a Bachelor in Theologia,” answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence.

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**Who acts:** Bachelor · **What happens:** be, answer · **To what, where:** Bachelor, Theologia, gentleman · **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 (Bachelor), 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:pg1597:5:118
# text = “I am a Bachelor in Theologia,” answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Theologia	Theologia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | a Bachelor *= bachelor* | a Bachelor |  | Theologia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a Bachelor |  | the gentleman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Eventuality |

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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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