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title: "In what manner did you leave the world?" he asked, just for the sak… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "In what manner did you leave the world?" he asked, just for the sake of saying something; for it made him feel very weary to stand there and wait. Who acts: you, mercy, sake, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 167

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"In what manner did you leave the world?" he asked, just for the sake of saying something; for it made him feel very weary to stand there and wait.

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**Who acts:** you, mercy, sake, world · **What happens:** leave, ask, say, make, feel, stand · **To what, where:** world, manner, something, mercy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mercy, sake, world), 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:pg27200:177:167
# text = "In what manner did you leave the world?" he asked, just for the sake of saying something; for it made him feel very weary to stand there and wait.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | the world |  | what manner |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme in manner=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | mercy |  |  |  |  | for the sake | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the sake *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past | world | mercy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | mercy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **stand** | to-infinitive | mercy *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wait** | infinitive | mercy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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