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title: "Now, all this I know, and all this I told to the twelve little Will… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now, all this I know, and all this I told to the twelve little Will-o'-the-Wisps whom I had on my lap, and who seemed quite crazy with joy. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 185

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"Now, all this I know, and all this I told to the twelve little Will-o'-the-Wisps whom I had on my lap, and who seemed quite crazy with joy.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** know, tell, have, seem · **To what, where:** this, twelve little Will, lap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14582`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:211:185
# text = "Now, all this I know, and all this I told to the twelve little Will-o'-the-Wisps whom I had on my lap, and who seemed quite crazy with joy.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Will	Will	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	o	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Wisps	Wisp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | moon | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | moon | this | the twelve little Will of the Wisps |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to will=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | moon | the twelve little Will of the Wisps |  | my lap |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **seem** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | crazy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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