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title: "Well, I like all this," said both the Englishmen; "always going dow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, I like all this," said both the Englishmen; "always going down the hill, and yet always merry; it's worth the money to see it." Who acts: Englishmen, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 127

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"Well, I like all this," said both the Englishmen; "always going down the hill, and yet always merry; it's worth the money to see it."

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**Who acts:** Englishmen, it · **What happens:** like, say, go down, be, see · **To what, where:** this, hill, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Englishmen, it), 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:pg27200:132:127
# text = "Well, I like all this," said both the Englishmen; "always going down the hill, and yet always merry; it's worth the money to see it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Englishmen	Englishman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	csubj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | present | the Englishmen *= englishman* | this |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Englishmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go down** *in a quote* | gerund | the Englishmen *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  | always *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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