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title: Oh,' said the person addressed--he was a poet himself--'it is good e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh,' said the person addressed--he was a poet himself--'it is good enough; a little broad, certainly; but, you see, the author is still young. Who acts: editor, poet, you, author. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 7

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Oh,' said the person addressed--he was a poet himself--'it is good enough; a little broad, certainly; but, you see, the author is still young.

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**Who acts:** editor, poet, you, author · **What happens:** say, address, be, see · **To what, where:** person, poet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (editor, poet, you, author), 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:pg27200:103:7
# text = Oh,' said the person addressed--he was a poet himself--'it is good enough; a little broad, certainly; but, you see, the author is still young.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  | the person and a poet |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
| 2 | **address** | participle |  | the person and a poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | editor | a poet |  |  |  | editor *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | poet |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | the author |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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