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title: “These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and ef… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of official duties”; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page. Who acts: overflowing, eye. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 56

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“These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of official duties”; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page.

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**Who acts:** overflowing, eye · **What happens:** say, run · **To what, where:** overflowing, first page · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overflowing, eye), 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:pg1597:8:56
# text = “These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of official duties”; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	effectually	effectually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hinder	hind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	overflowing	overflowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	_
36	consolingly	consolingly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	45	amod	_	_
45	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | overflowing |  | overflowing |  |  | consolingly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **run** | past | overflowing's eye |  |  | the first page |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over page=Trajectory |

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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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