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title: And the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction, which is saying a great deal, for they are very difficult to please. Who acts: footmen, satisfaction. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 69

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And the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction, which is saying a great deal, for they are very difficult to please.

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**Who acts:** footmen, satisfaction · **What happens:** express, say, be, please, satisfy · **To what, where:** satisfaction, great deal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footmen, satisfaction), 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:pg27200:125:69
# text = And the footmen and chambermaids also expressed their satisfaction, which is saying a great deal, for they are very difficult to please.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	chambermaids	chambermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | the footmen and chambermaids | footmen's satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | footmen's satisfaction | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | footmen *= footman* |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **please** | to-infinitive | footmen *= footman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **satisfy** |  | footmen *= footman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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