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title: "Do you think so?" said Mother Soren; then she looked into the fire… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do you think so?" said Mother Soren; then she looked into the fire for a while; but after a time she began to speak again. " Who acts: you, Mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 189

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"Do you think so?" said Mother Soren; then she looked into the fire for a while; but after a time she began to speak again. "

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**Who acts:** you, Mother · **What happens:** think, say, look, begin, speak · **To what, where:** time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mother), 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:pg27200:149:189
# text = "Do you think so?" said Mother Soren; then she looked into the fire for a while; but after a time she began to speak again. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	Soren	Soren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Mother |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | past | mother |  |  |  | then; while | into the fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into fire=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | mother | a time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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