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title: It was splendid!" they said; but it was a little too strong for me,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was splendid!" they said; but it was a little too strong for me, and besides, I was obliged to mount up on my visit to Ole. Who acts: bit, children, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 5

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It was splendid!" they said; but it was a little too strong for me, and besides, I was obliged to mount up on my visit to Ole.

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**Who acts:** bit, children, my · **What happens:** be, say, oblige, mount up, visit · **To what, where:** children, visit · **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 (bit, children, my), 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:pg27200:138:5
# text = It was splendid!" they said; but it was a little too strong for me, and besides, I was obliged to mount up on my visit to Ole.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bit |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | bit |  |  |  |  | for children *= child*; a little *obl:unmarked*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **oblige** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **mount up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | my visit to Ole |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on visit=Destination |
| 6 | **visit** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  | to Ole | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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