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title: "Mrs. Meta Mogen," said the fellow, "do you still remember how my fa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mrs. Meta Mogen," said the fellow, "do you still remember how my father, when your husband was still alive, had to ride on the wooden horse? Who acts: Mrs., you, husband, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 9

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"Mrs. Meta Mogen," said the fellow, "do you still remember how my father, when your husband was still alive, had to ride on the wooden horse?

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**Who acts:** Mrs., you, husband, father · **What happens:** say, remember, be, have, ride · **To what, where:** fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., you, husband, father), 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:pg27200:22:9
# text = "Mrs. Meta Mogen," said the fellow, "do you still remember how my father, when your husband was still alive, had to ride on the wooden horse?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Meta	Meta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Mogen	Mogen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Mrs. | the fellow |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  | still |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | your husband |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | my father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the wooden horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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