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title: Oh dear, what was that?" she exclaimed, as something pricked her. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh dear, what was that?" she exclaimed, as something pricked her. Who acts: garden, something. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 127

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Oh dear, what was that?" she exclaimed, as something pricked her.

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**Who acts:** garden, something · **What happens:** be, exclaim, prick · **To what, where:** that, garden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, something), 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:pg27200:131:127
# text = Oh dear, what was that?" she exclaimed, as something pricked her.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prick** *in a quote* | past | something | garden |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |

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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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