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title: “Augh!” sighed he, “were we only on the other side the Alps, then we… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Augh!” sighed he, “were we only on the other side the Alps, then we should have summer, and I could get my letters of credit cashed. Who acts: Augh, we, Gave, my. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 75

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“Augh!” sighed he, “were we only on the other side the Alps, then we should have summer, and I could get my letters of credit cashed.

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**Who acts:** Augh, we, Gave, my · **What happens:** sigh, be, have, get, cash, letter · **To what, where:** wind, other side, letters, credit

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Augh, we, Gave, my), 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:pg1597:9:75
# text = “Augh!” sighed he, “were we only on the other side the Alps, then we should have summer, and I could get my letters of credit cashed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Augh	Augh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	cashed	cash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | Augh | wind |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  | the other side |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  | then; summer |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | could | Gave | my letters of credit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cash** *in a quote* | participle |  | credit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **letter** *in a quote* |  | my | credit |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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