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title: “I have not read that novel,” said the Councillor; “it must be quite… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have not read that novel,” said the Councillor; “it must be quite a new one, that Heiberg has published lately.” Who acts: Councillor, more, Heiberg. 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 129

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“I have not read that novel,” said the Councillor; “it must be quite a new one, that Heiberg has published lately.”

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**Who acts:** Councillor, more, Heiberg · **What happens:** not read, say, be, publish · **To what, where:** novel, new one · **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 (Councillor, more, Heiberg), 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:pg1597:5:129
# text = “I have not read that novel,” said the Councillor; “it must be quite a new one, that Heiberg has published lately.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Councillor	councillor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	Heiberg	Heiberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
27	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Councillor *= councillor* | that novel |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Councillor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | more | quite new one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **publish** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Heiberg | quite new one *not said here* |  |  |  | lately *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result |

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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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