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title: There is certainly a talk about one who was not allowed to go--they… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is certainly a talk about one who was not allowed to go--they call him the Wandering Jew: he has to ride behind the omnibus. Who acts: talk, deeds, Wandering Jew. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 37

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There is certainly a talk about one who was not allowed to go--they call him the Wandering Jew: he has to ride behind the omnibus.

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**Who acts:** talk, deeds, Wandering Jew · **What happens:** be, not allow, go, call, have, ride · **To what, where:** talk, Wandering Jew, omnibus · **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 (talk, deeds, Wandering Jew), 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:pg27200:138:37
# text = There is certainly a talk about one who was not allowed to go--they call him the Wandering Jew: he has to ride behind the omnibus.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Wandering	Wandering	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a talk |  |  | there |  | certainly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | a talk |  |  |  | about one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | deeds *= deed* |  | talk |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **have** | present | talk | the Wandering Jew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ride** | to-infinitive | the Wandering Jew *not said here* |  |  | the omnibus |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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