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title: But would he also attempt to pass me? and should I again hear the ou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But would he also attempt to pass me? and should I again hear the outcry, 'False! good-for-nothing!' Who acts: foreigner, I. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 72

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But would he also attempt to pass me? and should I again hear the outcry, 'False! good-for-nothing!'

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**Who acts:** foreigner, I · **What happens:** attempt, pass, hear · **To what, where:** me, outcry

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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 (foreigner, I), 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:pg27200:167:72
# text = But would he also attempt to pass me? and should I again hear the outcry, 'False! good-for-nothing!'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | would | foreigner |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | foreigner *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hear** | should | I | the outcry |  |  | again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer outcry=Stimulus |

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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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