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title: What whimsical ideas these lunatics have! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What whimsical ideas these lunatics have! Who acts: whimsical ideas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 31

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What whimsical ideas these lunatics have!

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**Who acts:** whimsical ideas · **What happens:** have

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whimsical ideas), 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:pg27200:190:31
# text = What whimsical ideas these lunatics have!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	lunatics	lunatic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | whimsical ideas and this lunatics |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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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