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title: And as Angelo could make no sense of his friend's incoherent words,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And as Angelo could make no sense of his friend's incoherent words, he forbore to question him further, and merely said, Who acts: Angelo, friend. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 105

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And as Angelo could make no sense of his friend's incoherent words, he forbore to question him further, and merely said,

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**Who acts:** Angelo, friend · **What happens:** make, forbear, question, say, sense, word · **To what, where:** sense, Angelo, incoherent words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Angelo, friend), 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:pg27200:151:105
# text = And as Angelo could make no sense of his friend's incoherent words, he forbore to question him further, and merely said,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	incoherent	incoherent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	forbore	forbear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	further	further	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | Angelo | no sense of Angelo's friend's incoherent words |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Product |
| 2 | **forbear** | past | Angelo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Angelo *not said here* |  | Angelo |  |  | further *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sense** |  |  | Angelo's friend's incoherent words |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **word** |  | Angelo's friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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