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title: “Oh,” exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, “there is much wit i… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh,” exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, “there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court. Who acts: clerical gentleman. 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 127

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“Oh,” exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, “there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.

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**Who acts:** clerical gentleman · **What happens:** exclaim, smile, wit, read · **To what, where:** novels, court · **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 (clerical gentleman), 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:pg1597:5:127
# text = “Oh,” exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, “there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	clerical	clerical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wit	wit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the clerical gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund | the clerical gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wit** *in a quote* | present · passive | the clerical gentleman *not said here* |  |  | there |  | in novels *= novel* | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | novels *= novel* |  | court |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at court=Value |

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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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