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title: "Ugh, you beast!" said the farm laborer who emptied the bucket, when… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ugh, you beast!" said the farm laborer who emptied the bucket, when he saw the toad. " Who acts: you, beast, farm laborer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 29

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"Ugh, you beast!" said the farm laborer who emptied the bucket, when he saw the toad. "

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**Who acts:** you, beast, farm laborer · **What happens:** beast, say, empty, see · **To what, where:** farm laborer, bucket, toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beast, farm laborer), 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:pg27200:194:29
# text = "Ugh, you beast!" said the farm laborer who emptied the bucket, when he saw the toad. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beast** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | beast | the farm laborer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent laborer=Topic |
| 3 | **empty** | past | the farm laborer | the bucket |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bucket=Source |
| 4 | **see** | past | beast | the toad |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus |

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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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