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title: "What have you there?" asked another old magician, who had no name--… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What have you there?" asked another old magician, who had no name--and that was the best thing about him. Who acts: you, old magician, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 18

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"What have you there?" asked another old magician, who had no name--and that was the best thing about him.

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**Who acts:** you, old magician, that · **What happens:** have, ask, be · **To what, where:** name, best thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old magician, that), 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:pg27200:23:18
# text = "What have you there?" asked another old magician, who had no name--and that was the best thing about him.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## 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 |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | another old magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | another old magician | no name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | the best thing |  |  |  | about man | tree rules |

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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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