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title: A man might well have a bee in his bonnet, when he had such a coat o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A man might well have a bee in his bonnet, when he had such a coat of arms to carry as that, let alone having to carry two; and the General's wife had a bee in hers when she drove to the court ball, as stiff and as proud as you please. Who acts: man, wife, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Ch
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 40

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A man might well have a bee in his bonnet, when he had such a coat of arms to carry as that, let alone having to carry two; and the General's wife had a bee in hers when she drove to the court ball, as stiff and as proud as you please.

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**Who acts:** man, wife, lady · **What happens:** have, carry, let, drive · **To what, where:** bee, bonnet, coat, two, court ball

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, lady), 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:pg27200:146:40
# text = A man might well have a bee in his bonnet, when he had such a coat of arms to carry as that, let alone having to carry two; and the General's wife had a bee in hers when she drove to the court ball, as stiff and as proud as you please.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
42	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	advcl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	as	as	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
57	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	51	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | might | a man | a bee |  | man's bonnet |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | man | such coat of arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | such coat of arms *not said here* |  |  |  | as such coat of arms | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | two |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | the General's wife | a bee |  |  |  | in lady | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient |
| 8 | **drive** | past | lady |  |  | the court ball |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ball=Trajectory |

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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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