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title: And those whose names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anyth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And those whose names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anything at all. Who acts: names, girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 11

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And those whose names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anything at all.

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**Who acts:** names, girl · **What happens:** end, say, not be · **To what, where:** anything, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, girl), 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:pg27200:18:11
# text = And those whose names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anything at all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | that names |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | that names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sen | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sen=Manner |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | can | girl | anything |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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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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