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title: No one thanked him for the offer, and I saw the ruined old gentleman… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one thanked him for the offer, and I saw the ruined old gentleman lift his head, and throw it back more proudly than ever. Who acts: one, I, ruined old gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 145

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No one thanked him for the offer, and I saw the ruined old gentleman lift his head, and throw it back more proudly than ever.

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**Who acts:** one, I, ruined old gentleman · **What happens:** thank, see, ruin, lift, throw back · **To what, where:** Ramel, ruined old gentleman, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, ruined old gentleman), 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:pg27200:212:145
# text = No one thanked him for the offer, and I saw the ruined old gentleman lift his head, and throw it back more proudly than ever.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | no one |  | Ramel |  |  | for the offer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for offer=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | the ruined old gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** | infinitive | the ruined old gentleman *not said here* | Ramel's head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 5 | **throw back** | infinitive | the ruined old gentleman *not said here* | head |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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