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title: "That match I made up!" said the Thistle; and he thought of the flow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That match I made up!" said the Thistle; and he thought of the flower he had given for the buttonhole. Who acts: Thistle, One. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 25

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"That match I made up!" said the Thistle; and he thought of the flower he had given for the buttonhole.

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**Who acts:** Thistle, One · **What happens:** make up, say, think, give · **To what, where:** match, flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thistle, One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:12842`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:189:25
# text = "That match I made up!" said the Thistle; and he thought of the flower he had given for the buttonhole.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** *in a quote* | past | the Thistle *= thistle* | that match |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme match=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Thistle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | One |  |  |  |  | of the flower | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | One | the flower *not said here* |  |  |  | for the buttonhole | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for buttonhole=Asset |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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