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title: I do not know whether you would care to go to another wedding," he r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not know whether you would care to go to another wedding," he replied, "although it is quite a different affair to the one we saw last night. Who acts: I, you, Hjalmar, wedding. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 128

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I do not know whether you would care to go to another wedding," he replied, "although it is quite a different affair to the one we saw last night.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Hjalmar, wedding, we · **What happens:** not know, care, go, reply, be, see · **To what, where:** wedding, different affair, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Hjalmar, wedding), 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:pg27200:134:128
# text = I do not know whether you would care to go to another wedding," he replied, "although it is quite a different affair to the one we saw last night.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **care** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | another wedding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | wedding | quite different affair | the one |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past | we | the one *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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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