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title: “He is certainly,” thought he, “some village schoolmaster--some quee… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is certainly,” thought he, “some village schoolmaster--some queer old fellow, such as one still often meets with in Jutland.” Who acts: title. 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 120

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“He is certainly,” thought he, “some village schoolmaster--some queer old fellow, such as one still often meets with in Jutland.”

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**Who acts:** title · **What happens:** be, think, meet · **To what, where:** title · **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 (title), 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:pg1597:5:120
# text = “He is certainly,” thought he, “some village schoolmaster--some queer old fellow, such as one still often meets with in Jutland.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
16	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | title |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | title |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | still | with Jutland; often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jutland=Co-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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