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title: "Delightful indeed," cried a voice quite near to them; no one but th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Delightful indeed," cried a voice quite near to them; no one but the tin soldier saw that it came from a rag of the leather which hung in tatters; it had lost all its gilding, and looked like wet earth, but it had an opinion, and it spoke it thus:-- Who acts: voice, one, leather. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 139

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"Delightful indeed," cried a voice quite near to them; no one but the tin soldier saw that it came from a rag of the leather which hung in tatters; it had lost all its gilding, and looked like wet earth, but it had an opinion, and it spoke it thus:--

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**Who acts:** voice, one, leather · **What happens:** cry, see, come, hang, lose, look · **To what, where:** rag, tatters, voice, opinion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (voice, one, leather), 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:pg27200:131:139
# text = "Delightful indeed," cried a voice quite near to them; no one but the tin soldier saw that it came from a rag of the leather which hung in tatters; it had lost all its gilding, and looked like wet earth, but it had an opinion, and it spoke it thus:--
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tatters	tatter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	gilding	gilding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a voice |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | past | no one but the tin soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | voice |  |  | a rag of the leather |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rag=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hang** | past | the leather |  |  | tatters |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tatter=Location |
| 5 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | past | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like wet earth | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** | past | voice | a opinion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | voice | opinion |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |

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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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