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title: They wished to tease him--that was evident, and therefore the tutor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They wished to tease him--that was evident, and therefore the tutor declined to play, although he could do so very well. Who acts: guests, that, tutor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 109

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They wished to tease him--that was evident, and therefore the tutor declined to play, although he could do so very well.

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**Who acts:** guests, that, tutor · **What happens:** wish, tease, be, decline, not play, do · **To what, where:** tutor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, that, tutor), 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:pg27200:155:109
# text = They wished to tease him--that was evident, and therefore the tutor declined to play, although he could do so very well.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tutor	tutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **tease** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | guests *= guest* *not said here* | tutor |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | evident *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **decline** | past | the tutor |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | the tutor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | could | tutor |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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