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title: Joanna pressed his hand, and said, "Have you ever been to the theatr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Joanna pressed his hand, and said, "Have you ever been to the theatre? you must go once; I sing there on Wednesday, and if you have time on that day, I will send you a ticket; my father knows where your master lives." Who acts: Joanna, you, father, master. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 7

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Joanna pressed his hand, and said, "Have you ever been to the theatre? you must go once; I sing there on Wednesday, and if you have time on that day, I will send you a ticket; my father knows where your master lives."

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**Who acts:** Joanna, you, father, master · **What happens:** press, say, have, be, go, sing · **To what, where:** hand, ticket, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joanna, you, father, master), 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:pg27200:203:7
# text = Joanna pressed his hand, and said, "Have you ever been to the theatre? you must go once; I sing there on Wednesday, and if you have time on that day, I will send you a ticket; my father knows where your master lives."
1	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	51	advmod	_	_
49	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | Joanna | Joanna's hand |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Joanna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | ever | to the theatre | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | Joanna |  |  | there | wednesday |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 7 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **send** *in a quote* | future | Joanna | a ticket | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination ticket=Theme |
| 9 | **know** *in a quote* | present | my father |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **live** *in a quote* | present | your master |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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