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title: There are no delicacies here," he said; so he wished to go out into… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There are no delicacies here," he said; so he wished to go out into the world to find something delicate to suit his taste. " Who acts: delicacies, other two, something. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 150

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There are no delicacies here," he said; so he wished to go out into the world to find something delicate to suit his taste. "

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**Who acts:** delicacies, other two, something · **What happens:** be, say, wish, go out, find, suit · **To what, where:** world, something, taste · **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 (delicacies, other two, something), 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:pg27200:143:150
# text = There are no delicacies here," he said; so he wished to go out into the world to find something delicate to suit his taste. "
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no delicacies |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | other two *= two* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | other two *= two* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **go out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | other two *= two* *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | other two *= two* *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 6 | **suit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | other two's taste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **taste** *in a quote* |  | other two *= two* |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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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