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title: Certainly, when such high-born personages try for the office, we may… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly, when such high-born personages try for the office, we may as well say 'Good-night,' and go home." Who acts: such born personages, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 62

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Certainly, when such high-born personages try for the office, we may as well say 'Good-night,' and go home."

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**Who acts:** such born personages, we · **What happens:** bear, try, say, go · **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 Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such born personages, we), 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:pg27200:133:62
# text = Certainly, when such high-born personages try for the office, we may as well say 'Good-night,' and go home."
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try** | present | such born personages |  |  |  |  | for the office | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | we |  |  |  | night | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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