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title: “'Tales of Every-day Life?'” said our Bachelor inquiringly. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “'Tales of Every-day Life?'” said our Bachelor inquiringly. Who acts: Tales, day Life. 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 125

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“'Tales of Every-day Life?'” said our Bachelor inquiringly.

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**Who acts:** Tales, day Life · **What happens:** say, tell · **To what, where:** Bachelor · **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 (Tales, day Life), 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:pg1597:5:125
# text = “'Tales of Every-day Life?'” said our Bachelor inquiringly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	inquiringly	inquiringly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tales of day Life | our Bachelor |  |  |  | inquiringly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bachelor=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *in a quote* |  | day Life |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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