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title: "Yes, you have; and yet the people ran about and fired off guns, to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, you have; and yet the people ran about and fired off guns, to usher in the new year," said a little shivering sparrow. " Who acts: you, people, little shivering sparrow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 14

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"Yes, you have; and yet the people ran about and fired off guns, to usher in the new year," said a little shivering sparrow. "

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**Who acts:** you, people, little shivering sparrow · **What happens:** have, run about, fire off, usher, say · **To what, where:** fired guns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, little shivering sparrow), 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:pg27200:214:14
# text = "Yes, you have; and yet the people ran about and fired off guns, to usher in the new year," said a little shivering sparrow. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	usher	usher	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	shivering	shivering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run about** *in a quote* | past | the people | fired guns |  |  | yet |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fire off** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **usher** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a little shivering sparrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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