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title: "I should really have voted for myself," said the mule, "if I had no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I should really have voted for myself," said the mule, "if I had not been one of the judges on the committee. Who acts: mule. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 29

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"I should really have voted for myself," said the mule, "if I had not been one of the judges on the committee.

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**Who acts:** mule · **What happens:** vote, say, not be · **To what, where:** one · **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 (mule), 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:pg27200:153:29
# text = "I should really have voted for myself," said the mule, "if I had not been one of the judges on the committee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	voted	vote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** *in a quote* | should · perfect | the mule *= mule* |  |  |  |  | for the mule *= mule* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for myself=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mule |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | the mule *= mule* | one |  |  |  | of the judges on the committee | tree rules |

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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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