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title: He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 15

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He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** be, not pronounce · **To what, where:** Bow wow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg27200:169:15
# text = He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wow	wow	NOUN	NN	_	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | hoarse *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pronounce** | could | dog *not said here* | Bow wow |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wow=Theme |

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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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