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title: "Bring a certificate from the old moor-hen," said he, "that you have… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bring a certificate from the old moor-hen," said he, "that you have slept away half your time in fatherland; then you will be treated with some consideration." Who acts: swallow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 14

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"Bring a certificate from the old moor-hen," said he, "that you have slept away half your time in fatherland; then you will be treated with some consideration."

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**Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** bring, say, sleep away, treat · **To what, where:** certificate, that, fatherland, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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:pg27200:153:14
# text = "Bring a certificate from the old moor-hen," said he, "that you have slept away half your time in fatherland; then you will be treated with some consideration."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	certificate	certificate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a certificate |  |  |  | from the old moor hen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent certificate=Theme from hen=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | swallow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sleep away** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | that |  | fatherland | time | away *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in fatherland=Location |
| 4 | **treat** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | you |  |  | then | with some consideration | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with consideration=Theme |

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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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