--- title: If the newspapers, or even the whole world, said of a certain subjec… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: If the newspapers, or even the whole world, said of a certain subject, "It is so-and-so;" and a little schoolboy declared he had learned quite differently, they would take his assertion as the only true one, because he belonged to the family. 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C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newspapers, subject, little schoolboy, schoolboy), 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:pg27200:16:52 # text = If the newspapers, or even the whole world, said of a certain subject, "It is so-and-so;" and a little schoolboy declared he had learned quite differently, they would take his assertion as the only true one, because he belonged to the family. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 schoolboy schoolboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 35 quite quite ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 differently differently ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 assertion assertion NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 because because SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the newspapers the whole world | | | | | of a certain subject | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | subject | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | a little schoolboy | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | past · perfect | schoolboy | | | | | differently *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take** | would | newspaper | schoolboy's assertion | | | | as the only true one | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent assertion=Theme as one=Attribute | | 6 | **belong** | past | schoolboy | | | | | to the family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **assert** | | schoolboy | | | | | | nom assertion «communication transitive»: poss=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/53/) - ↑ back to [A Cheerful Temper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/)