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title: Have you anything to say in defence? — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you anything to say in defence? A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 18

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Have you anything to say in defence?

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**What happens:** have, say · **To what, where:** anything, defence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:157:18
# text = Have you anything to say in defence?
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | anything *not said here* |  | defence |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in defence=Manner |

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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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