--- title: "He had a right to do as he did in those times," said Holberg; "but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "He had a right to do as he did in those times," said Holberg; "but now we have left those times behind us." Who acts: Kai, Holberg, we. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/193/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) / 193 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 193 "He had a right to do as he did in those times," said Holberg; "but now we have left those times behind us." **Who acts:** Kai, Holberg, we · **What happens:** have, do, say, leave · **To what, where:** right · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Kai, Holberg, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:149:193 # text = "He had a right to do as he did in those times," said Holberg; "but now we have left those times behind us." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 Holberg Holberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 25 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Kai | a right | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kai *not said here* | a right *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Kai | | | | time | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Holberg | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | | | | now; time | behind us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind we=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/192/) - next →: [sentence 194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/194/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)