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title: "By no means," replied grandpapa. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "By no means," replied grandpapa. " Who acts: no. 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 98

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"By no means," replied grandpapa. "

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**Who acts:** no · **What happens:** mean, reply · **To what, where:** replied grandpapa · **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 (no), 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:pg27200:127:98
# text = "By no means," replied grandpapa. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | no | replied grandpapa |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandpapa=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «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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