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description: If they cement his back, and put a good rivet in it, he will be as good as new, and be able to say as many disagreeable things to us as ever." Who acts: heads, grandfather. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 70

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If they cement his back, and put a good rivet in it, he will be as good as new, and be able to say as many disagreeable things to us as ever."

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**Who acts:** heads, grandfather · **What happens:** cement, put, be, say · **To what, where:** back, good rivet, rivet, many disagreeable things, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, grandfather), 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:pg27200:166:70
# text = If they cement his back, and put a good rivet in it, he will be as good as new, and be able to say as many disagreeable things to us as ever."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cement	cement	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rivet	rivet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cement** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | heads *= head* | grandfather's back |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* | a good rivet |  | rivet |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rivet=Theme in it=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | future | grandfather |  |  |  |  | as new; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | grandfather *not said here* | many disagreeable things | us |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to we=Recipient |

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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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