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title: All my thoughts rein on skewers, sticks of wood, and staves; and as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All my thoughts rein on skewers, sticks of wood, and staves; and as I am, at last, a poet, and I have worked terribly hard to make myself one, I can of course make poetry on anything. Who acts: thoughts, I, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 66

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All my thoughts rein on skewers, sticks of wood, and staves; and as I am, at last, a poet, and I have worked terribly hard to make myself one, I can of course make poetry on anything.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, I, my · **What happens:** rein, work, make, think · **To what, where:** skewers, myself, poetry, anything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, I, my), 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:pg27200:180:66
# text = All my thoughts rein on skewers, sticks of wood, and staves; and as I am, at last, a poet, and I have worked terribly hard to make myself one, I can of course make poetry on anything.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rein	rein	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	skewers	skewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
30	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rein** | present | my thoughts |  |  | skewers and sticks of wood and staves |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary one=Product |
| 4 | **make** | can | my thoughts *not said here* | poetry |  | anything |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poetry=Product |
| 5 | **think** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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