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title: When one is in the dust-cart,' they said, 'one ought not to give one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When one is in the dust-cart,' they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel. Who acts: one, potsherds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 21

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When one is in the dust-cart,' they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.

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**Who acts:** one, potsherds · **What happens:** be, say, not give, wear · **To what, where:** dust cart, self airs, one, tinsel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, potsherds), 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:pg27200:138:21
# text = When one is in the dust-cart,' they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
16	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	airs	air	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | one |  |  | the dust cart |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | potsherds *= potsherd* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **give** | ought | one | self airs | one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient air=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | infinitive | one *not said here* | tinsel |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tinsel=Source |

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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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