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title: How kind and straightforward the old count is! and he talks exactly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How kind and straightforward the old count is! and he talks exactly like you and me. Who acts: old count, Count. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 12

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How kind and straightforward the old count is! and he talks exactly like you and me.

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**Who acts:** old count, Count · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old count, Count), 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:pg27200:147:12
# text = How kind and straightforward the old count is! and he talks exactly like you and me.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the old count |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the old count *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | present | Count | you |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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