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title: "That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!" Who acts: That, history. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 31

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"That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!"

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**Who acts:** That, history · **What happens:** be, say, tell, give · **To what, where:** history, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, history), 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:pg27200:137:31
# text = "That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the history |  |  |  | of the glasses | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the history |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can · passive |  | history |  |  |  | with lacquer or grease | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present | the history *= history* | history | you |  |  | with both | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=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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