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title: "That sentiment does you honor," said the wind; "but for this purpos… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That sentiment does you honor," said the wind; "but for this purpose wax lights will be necessary. Who acts: sentiment, wind, wax lights. 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 66

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"That sentiment does you honor," said the wind; "but for this purpose wax lights will be necessary.

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**Who acts:** sentiment, wind, wax lights · **What happens:** honor, say, be · **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 (sentiment, wind, wax lights), 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:pg27200:133:66
# text = "That sentiment does you honor," said the wind; "but for this purpose wax lights will be necessary.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	honor	honor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honor** *in a quote* | present · do-support | that sentiment |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | this wax lights |  |  |  |  | necessary *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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