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title: “I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves i… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.” Who acts: Tales, commonplace. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 126

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“I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.”

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**Who acts:** Tales, commonplace · **What happens:** mean, twist, writhe, expect, find · **To what, where:** new fangled novels, novels, dust, commonplace, reading public

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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, commonplace), 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:pg1597:5:126
# text = “I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fangled	fangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	writhing	writhe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Tales of day Life *= tale* | that new fangled novels |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Topic |
| 2 | **twist** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **writhe** *in a quote* | gerund |  | novels *= novel* |  | the dust of commonplace |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **expect** *in a quote* | present |  | commonplace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | commonplace *not said here* | a reading public |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent public=Topic |

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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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