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title: "Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the other art… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the other articles that stood on the table; "that's what I always say. Who acts: inkstand, other articles, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 4

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"Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the other articles that stood on the table; "that's what I always say.

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**Who acts:** inkstand, other articles, that · **What happens:** say, stand, be · **To what, where:** other articles, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inkstand, other articles, 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:pg27200:142:4
# text = "Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the other articles that stood on the table; "that's what I always say.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the inkstand |  | the other articles |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to article=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the other articles |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the inkstand *= inkstand* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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