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title: One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening. Who acts: One. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 18

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One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** say, be, have · **To what, where:** head, physical sense, watch · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg1597:396`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:7:18
# text = One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | might · passive |  | head |  | a physical sense |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in sense=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | One of the young men | the watch |  |  | evening |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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