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title: That was a very poor joke perpetrated by the gale, which seemed to h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That was a very poor joke perpetrated by the gale, which seemed to have forgotten that a man who writes in a paper is not the kind of person to understand any liberty taken with him; for he is a king in his own newspaper, and likewise in his own opinion. Who acts: That, gale, man. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 39

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That was a very poor joke perpetrated by the gale, which seemed to have forgotten that a man who writes in a paper is not the kind of person to understand any liberty taken with him; for he is a king in his own newspaper, and likewise in his own opinion.

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**Who acts:** That, gale, man · **What happens:** be, perpetrate, seem, forget, write, not be · **To what, where:** poor joke, paper, kind, liberty, own newspaper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, gale, man), 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:pg27200:184:39
# text = That was a very poor joke perpetrated by the gale, which seemed to have forgotten that a man who writes in a paper is not the kind of person to understand any liberty taken with him; for he is a king in his own newspaper, and likewise in his own opinion.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	perpetrated	perpetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | a poor joke and man's own opinion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perpetrate** | participle |  | a poor joke and man's own opinion *not said here* |  |  |  | by the gale | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the gale |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **forget** | to-infinitive · perfect | the gale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **write** | present | a man |  |  | a paper |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in paper=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | a man | the kind |  |  |  | of person | tree rules |
| 7 | **understand** | to-infinitive | the gale *not said here* | any liberty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus |
| 8 | **take** | participle |  | any liberty *not said here* |  |  |  | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | present | man |  |  | man's own newspaper |  | for a king | tree rules |
| 10 | **opine** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «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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