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title: The old man made jokes about Martin, and declared there must be some… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man made jokes about Martin, and declared there must be some magic about that fellow, of whom the girls were so fond. Who acts: old man, magic, girls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 107

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The old man made jokes about Martin, and declared there must be some magic about that fellow, of whom the girls were so fond.

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**Who acts:** old man, magic, girls · **What happens:** make, declare, be · **To what, where:** jokes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, magic, girls), 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:pg27200:160:107
# text = The old man made jokes about Martin, and declared there must be some magic about that fellow, of whom the girls were so fond.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the old man | jokes |  |  |  | about Martin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | must | some magic about that fellow |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the girls |  |  |  |  | of that fellow; fond *property* | 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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