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title: "Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must conform to the rules of the house while you are here. Who acts: Portuguese, you, house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 85

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"Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must conform to the rules of the house while you are here.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese, you, house · **What happens:** want, say, conform, be, rule · **To what, where:** rest, rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, you, house), 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:pg27200:145:85
# text = "Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must conform to the rules of the house while you are here.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
5	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	conform	conform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the Portuguese *= portuguese* | rest |  |  | after my dinner; now |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Portuguese |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **conform** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  | to the rules of the house *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to rule=Goal |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | the house |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition 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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