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title: And George was fairly wild with delight yesterday at the good recept… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And George was fairly wild with delight yesterday at the good reception he met with at the Count's, and so am I to-day, after speaking to the great man. Who acts: George, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 14

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And George was fairly wild with delight yesterday at the good reception he met with at the Count's, and so am I to-day, after speaking to the great man.

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**Who acts:** George, I · **What happens:** be, meet, speak · **To what, where:** good reception · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (George, I), 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:pg27200:147:14
# text = And George was fairly wild with delight yesterday at the good reception he met with at the Count's, and so am I to-day, after speaking to the great man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | George |  |  | the good reception |  | with delight  yesterday; fairly, wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | George | the good reception *not said here* |  |  |  | with the Count | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent reception=Theme with count=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | to day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the great man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-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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