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title: Yes, yes, you may believe me, it is all as true as I sit here," said… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, yes, you may believe me, it is all as true as I sit here," said the crow. " Who acts: you, notice, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 29

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Yes, yes, you may believe me, it is all as true as I sit here," said the crow. "

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**Who acts:** you, notice, I · **What happens:** believe, be, sit, say · **To what, where:** me, crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, notice, 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:pg27200:173:29
# text = Yes, yes, you may believe me, it is all as true as I sit here," said the crow. "
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | may | you |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | notice |  |  |  |  | all, true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the crow |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crow=Topic |

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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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