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title: "And now the old Pipe-head replies: — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "And now the old Pipe-head replies: A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 93

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"And now the old Pipe-head replies:

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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: 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:pg27200:127:93
# text = "And now the old Pipe-head replies:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	Pipe	Pipe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	replies	reply	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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