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title: When, lately, in my wisdom, I let the father and the boys examine my… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When, lately, in my wisdom, I let the father and the boys examine my throat and the hole in my chest, to see what was going on there,--for something in me was out of order, and it's well to examine one's self,--the little ones made a tremendous noise. Who acts: I, boys, order, little ones. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 19

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When, lately, in my wisdom, I let the father and the boys examine my throat and the hole in my chest, to see what was going on there,--for something in me was out of order, and it's well to examine one's self,--the little ones made a tremendous noise.

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**Who acts:** I, boys, order, little ones · **What happens:** let, examine, see, go, be, make · **To what, where:** father, wisdom, throat, order, self, tremendous noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boys, order, little ones), 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:pg27200:213:19
# text = When, lately, in my wisdom, I let the father and the boys examine my throat and the hole in my chest, to see what was going on there,--for something in me was out of order, and it's well to examine one's self,--the little ones made a tremendous noise.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
50	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
58	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | I | the father |  | my wisdom |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 2 | **examine** | infinitive | the boys | my throat and the hole in my chest |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | order |  | for something | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | order |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **examine** | to-infinitive | order *not said here* | one's self |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | past | the little ones | a tremendous noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |

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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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