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title: Mr. Waistcoat undoes himself, and addresses his speech to you, that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Waistcoat undoes himself, and addresses his speech to you, that you may applaud; but leave it alone,--that's considered more genteel. Who acts: Mr. Waistcoat, you, grandpapa. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 82

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Mr. Waistcoat undoes himself, and addresses his speech to you, that you may applaud; but leave it alone,--that's considered more genteel.

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**Who acts:** Mr. Waistcoat, you, grandpapa · **What happens:** undo, address, applaud, leave, consider, speak · **To what, where:** grandpapa, speech, you, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Waistcoat, you, grandpapa), 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:pg27200:127:82
# text = Mr. Waistcoat undoes himself, and addresses his speech to you, that you may applaud; but leave it alone,--that's considered more genteel.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	undoes	undo	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	addresses	address	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	applaud	applaud	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	genteel	genteel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | present | Mr. Waistcoat | grandpapa |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument himself=Patient |
| 2 | **address** | present | Mr. Waistcoat *not said here* | grandpapa's speech | you |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Destination |
| 3 | **applaud** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  | speech |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **consider** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | genteel *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 6 | **speak** |  | grandpapa |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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