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title: They should have offered me incense," he said, "for it was I who gav… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They should have offered me incense," he said, "for it was I who gave him the idea of the most famous of his songs--the drum song of 'The Way of the World;' and it was I who spat at the rose; I can bring a witness to that fact." Who acts: offered incense, snail, I, incense. A sentence of «Fairy Tale
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 139

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They should have offered me incense," he said, "for it was I who gave him the idea of the most famous of his songs--the drum song of 'The Way of the World;' and it was I who spat at the rose; I can bring a witness to that fact."

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**Who acts:** offered incense, snail, I, incense, Way · **What happens:** offer, say, be, give, spat, bring · **To what, where:** grief, me, idea, incense, I, rose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offered incense, snail, I, incense), 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:pg27200:143:139
# text = They should have offered me incense," he said, "for it was I who gave him the idea of the most famous of his songs--the drum song of 'The Way of the World;' and it was I who spat at the rose; I can bring a witness to that fact."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	spat	spat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
59	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | should · perfect · passive |  | grief | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | offered incense |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | snail |  |  |  |  | for I | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | I | the idea | incense |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient idea=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | snail | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spat** | present |  |  |  | the rose |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bring** | can | I | a witness |  | that fact |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent witness=Theme to fact=Destination |
| 8 | **sing** |  | incense |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sing** |  | the Way of the World |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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