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title: I've a kind of niece, who is a fishwife, and who, as she tells me, s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I've a kind of niece, who is a fishwife, and who, as she tells me, supplies three respectable newspapers with the terms of abuse and vituperation they use, and she has herself been at Amack as an invited guest; but she was carried out thither, for she does not own a quill pen, nor can she ride. Who 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 27

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I've a kind of niece, who is a fishwife, and who, as she tells me, supplies three respectable newspapers with the terms of abuse and vituperation they use, and she has herself been at Amack as an invited guest; but she was carried out thither, for she does not own a quill pen, nor can she ride.

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**Who acts:** niece, newspapers, Amack · **What happens:** be, tell, supply, use, have, invite · **To what, where:** fishwife, me, three respectable newspapers, abuse, Amack, quill pen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (niece, newspapers, Amack), 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:pg27200:136:27
# text = I've a kind of niece, who is a fishwife, and who, as she tells me, supplies three respectable newspapers with the terms of abuse and vituperation they use, and she has herself been at Amack as an invited guest; but she was carried out thither, for she does not own a quill pen, nor can she ride.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	niece	niece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fishwife	fishwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	supplies	supply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	vituperation	vituperation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
38	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Amack	Amack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	61	compound	_	_
61	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
63	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	66	cc	_	_
64	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
65	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | niece and a fishwife | a fishwife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **supply** | present |  | three respectable newspapers |  |  |  | with the terms of abuse and vituperation; as a invited guest | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent newspaper=Recipient with term=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | newspapers *= newspaper* | abuse and vituperation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abuse=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | Amack | Amack |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | Amack |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **carry out** | past · passive |  | Amack |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 9 | **not** **own** | present · do-support | Amack | a quill pen |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pen=Theme |
| 10 | **ride** | can | Amack |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **term** |  |  | abuse and vituperation |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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