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title: Joy again overwhelmed me; for was I not good silver, and had I not a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Joy again overwhelmed me; for was I not good silver, and had I not a genuine stamp? Who acts: Joy, 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 87

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Joy again overwhelmed me; for was I not good silver, and had I not a genuine stamp?

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**Who acts:** Joy, I · **What happens:** overwhelm, not be, have · **To what, where:** me, I

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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 (Joy, 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:pg27200:167:87
# text = Joy again overwhelmed me; for was I not good silver, and had I not a genuine stamp?
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overwhelm** | past | Joy | me |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | for good silver | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Joy *not said here* | I |  |  |  | a genuine stamp *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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