--- title: "Yes, they said a good many things of the kind, according to their a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes, they said a good many things of the kind, according to their age and their reason. Who acts: friends. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/23/) [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/) / [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/) / 23 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 23 "Yes, they said a good many things of the kind, according to their age and their reason. **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** say, accord · **To what, where:** good many things · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (friends), 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:pg27200:151:23 # text = "Yes, they said a good many things of the kind, according to their age and their reason. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 case _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | friends *= friend* | a good many things | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/24/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)