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title: Now," said he, "you must tell me some stories about five green peas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now," said he, "you must tell me some stories about five green peas that lived in one pod; or of the chickseed that courted the chickweed; or of the darning needle, who acted so proudly because she fancied herself an embroidery needle." Who acts: Hjalmar, you, five green peas, chickseed. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 185

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Now," said he, "you must tell me some stories about five green peas that lived in one pod; or of the chickseed that courted the chickweed; or of the darning needle, who acted so proudly because she fancied herself an embroidery needle."

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**Who acts:** Hjalmar, you, five green peas, chickseed, portrait · **What happens:** say, tell, live, court, act, fancy · **To what, where:** stories, five green peas, one pod, chickweed, portrait · **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 (Hjalmar, you, five green peas, chickseed), 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:pg27200:134:185
# text = Now," said he, "you must tell me some stories about five green peas that lived in one pod; or of the chickseed that courted the chickweed; or of the darning needle, who acted so proudly because she fancied herself an embroidery needle."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chickseed	chickseed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	courted	court	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chickweed	chickweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	darning	darning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
46	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hjalmar |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | you | some stories | five green peas |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | five green peas |  |  | one pod |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pod=Location |
| 4 | **court** | past | the chickseed | the chickweed |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickweed=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **act** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the darning needle; proudly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fancy** | past | portrait | portrait |  |  |  |  | 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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