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title: "Engaged!" cried the shirt collar, "now there is no one left to prop… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Engaged!" cried the shirt collar, "now there is no one left to propose to;" and then he pretended to despise all love-making. Who acts: shirt collar, one, collar. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 36

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"Engaged!" cried the shirt collar, "now there is no one left to propose to;" and then he pretended to despise all love-making.

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**Who acts:** shirt collar, one, collar · **What happens:** engage, cry, be, leave, propose, pretend · **To what, where:** one, love making · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt collar, one, collar), 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:pg27200:168:36
# text = "Engaged!" cried the shirt collar, "now there is no one left to propose to;" and then he pretended to despise all love-making.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	propose	propose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** *in a quote* | participle | the shirt collar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the shirt collar |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no one |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle |  | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **propose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pretend** | past | collar |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **despise** | to-infinitive | collar *not said here* | all love making |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer making=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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