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title: Such was the opinion and the speech of men; but not of those creatur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such was the opinion and the speech of men; but not of those creatures who had been born here, and who built and dwelt here--of the rats, namely, who were squeaking to one another in the clefts of a crumbling wall, quite plainly, and in a way the Dryad understood well. Who acts: Such, creatures, Dry
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 30

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Such was the opinion and the speech of men; but not of those creatures who had been born here, and who built and dwelt here--of the rats, namely, who were squeaking to one another in the clefts of a crumbling wall, quite plainly, and in a way the Dryad understood well.

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**Who acts:** Such, creatures, Dryad · **What happens:** be, bear, build, dwell, squeak, crumble · **To what, where:** opinion, creatures, one, way, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, creatures, Dryad), 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:pg27200:26:30
# text = Such was the opinion and the speech of men; but not of those creatures who had been born here, and who built and dwelt here--of the rats, namely, who were squeaking to one another in the clefts of a crumbling wall, quite plainly, and in a way the Dryad understood well.
1	Such	Such	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	squeaking	squeak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	fixed	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	clefts	cleft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	amod	_	_
47	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
59	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Such | the opinion and the speech of men but that creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | that creatures |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **build** | past | that creatures |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | that creatures *not said here* |  |  | here |  | of the rats | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **squeak** | past · progressive |  |  | one in the clefts of a crumbling wall |  |  | plainly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 6 | **crumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **understand** | past | the Dryad |  |  | a way |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **speak** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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