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title: "Have you obtained an appointment here in the city?" asked the sparr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Have you obtained an appointment here in the city?" asked the sparrows. Who acts: you, sparrows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 205

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"Have you obtained an appointment here in the city?" asked the sparrows.

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**Who acts:** you, sparrows · **What happens:** obtain, ask · **To what, where:** appointment, city · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sparrows), 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:pg27200:124:205
# text = "Have you obtained an appointment here in the city?" asked the sparrows.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a appointment |  | the city; here |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the sparrows |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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