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title: "That was not at all a bad proposal," said the other mouse; "but how… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That was not at all a bad proposal," said the other mouse; "but how is the soup made?" Who acts: That, bad proposal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 13

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"That was not at all a bad proposal," said the other mouse; "but how is the soup made?"

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**Who acts:** That, bad proposal · **What happens:** not be, say, be, make · **To what, where:** bad proposal, other mouse, soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, bad proposal), 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:pg27200:178:13
# text = "That was not at all a bad proposal," said the other mouse; "but how is the soup made?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | That |  |  | all bad proposal |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | all bad proposal | the other mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the soup |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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