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title: He certainly had not the least idea of what would follow, but he was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He certainly had not the least idea of what would follow, but he was curious, and curiosity often brings its own punishment. Who acts: man, curiosity. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 13

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He certainly had not the least idea of what would follow, but he was curious, and curiosity often brings its own punishment.

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**Who acts:** man, curiosity · **What happens:** have, follow, be, bring, punish · **To what, where:** least idea, own punishment

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, curiosity), 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:pg27200:167:13
# text = He certainly had not the least idea of what would follow, but he was curious, and curiosity often brings its own punishment.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | man | the least idea |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | would |  | the least idea |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present | curiosity | curiosity's own punishment |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 5 | **punish** |  | curiosity |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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