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title: All this was new and interesting; that is, for the first time, but a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All this was new and interesting; that is, for the first time, but afterwards, as the weather-cock found out, they repeated themselves and always told the same stories, and that's very tedious, and there was no one with whom one could associate, for one and all were stale and small-minded. Who acts:
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 21

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All this was new and interesting; that is, for the first time, but afterwards, as the weather-cock found out, they repeated themselves and always told the same stories, and that's very tedious, and there was no one with whom one could associate, for one and all were stale and small-minded.

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**Who acts:** this, that, cocks, one, all · **What happens:** be, find out, repeat, tell, associate · **To what, where:** weather cock, cocks, same stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, that, cocks, one), 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:pg27200:19:21
# text = All this was new and interesting; that is, for the first time, but afterwards, as the weather-cock found out, they repeated themselves and always told the same stories, and that's very tedious, and there was no one with whom one could associate, for one and all were stale and small-minded.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	tedious	tedious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nmod	_	_
50	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	associate	associate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	nsubj	_	_
58	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	stale	stale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | for the first time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find out** | participle |  | the weather cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repeat** | past | cocks *= cock* | cocks *= cock* |  |  |  | as the weather cock; afterwards *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | cocks *= cock* *not said here* | the same stories |  |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | tedious *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **associate** | could | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for one | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | stale *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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