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title: Let Herr Fabs see how he would get in himself; but what he said of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let Herr Fabs see how he would get in himself; but what he said of the performers, tragedians and comedians, singers and dancers, that was the most rascally of all. Who acts: you, Fabs, Herr, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 71

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Let Herr Fabs see how he would get in himself; but what he said of the performers, tragedians and comedians, singers and dancers, that was the most rascally of all.

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**Who acts:** you, Fabs, Herr, that · **What happens:** let, see, get, say, be · **To what, where:** Herr · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fabs, Herr, that), 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:pg27200:139:71
# text = Let Herr Fabs see how he would get in himself; but what he said of the performers, tragedians and comedians, singers and dancers, that was the most rascally of all.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Herr	Herr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	Fabs	fab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	performers	performer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	tragedians	tragedian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	comedians	comedian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	rascally	rascally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Herr |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herr=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | Fabs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **get** | would | Herr |  |  |  |  | in Herr | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Herr |  |  |  |  | of the performers and tragedians and comedians and singers and dancers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | of all; rascally *property* | tree rules |

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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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