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title: "But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimabl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimable owl to talk to." Who acts: Prenez garde, garde. 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.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 25

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"But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimable owl to talk to."

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**Who acts:** Prenez garde, garde · **What happens:** tell, be, talk · **To what, where:** neighbour owl, estimable owl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prenez garde, garde), 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:pg27200:126:25
# text = "But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimable owl to talk to."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	estimable	estimable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | Prenez garde aux enfants *= garde* | our neighbour owl |  |  |  | about owl | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient about it=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | garde | such estimable owl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prenez garde aux enfants *= garde* *not said here* | such estimable owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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