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title: No." "Then you have no right to express an opinion when sensible peo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No." "Then you have no right to express an opinion when sensible people are speaking." Who acts: you, sensible people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 103

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No." "Then you have no right to express an opinion when sensible people are speaking."

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**Who acts:** you, sensible people · **What happens:** have, express, speak · **To what, where:** No., opinion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sensible people), 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:pg27200:201:103
# text = No." "Then you have no right to express an opinion when sensible people are speaking."
1	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	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 | you | No. |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **express** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a opinion |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · progressive | sensible people |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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