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title: What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads! Who acts: Selenites. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 116

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What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads!

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**Who acts:** Selenites · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** strange things, heads

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selenites), 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:pg1597:6:116
# text = What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
11	Selenites	selenite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Selenites | strange things *not said here* |  | Selenites's heads |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme into head=Destination |

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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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