---
title: She said this merrily, for she was the best of the hens, and, moreov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She said this merrily, for she was the best of the hens, and, moreover, as had been said, very respectable. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/) / 11

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She said this merrily, for she was the best of the hens, and, moreover, as had been said, very respectable.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:126:11
# text = She said this merrily, for she was the best of the hens, and, moreover, as had been said, very respectable.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sun | this |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | of the hens; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/12/)
- ↑ back to [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/)