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title: And this report we have wet from the press of the head clerk and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And this report we have wet from the press of the head clerk and the corporation of printers--but they are not to be depended upon in the least. Who acts: head clerk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 100

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And this report we have wet from the press of the head clerk and the corporation of printers--but they are not to be depended upon in the least.

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**Who acts:** head clerk · **What happens:** not depend, press · **To what, where:** printers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head clerk), 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:pg27200:28:100
# text = And this report we have wet from the press of the head clerk and the corporation of printers--but they are not to be depended upon in the least.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	printers	printer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	depended	depend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **depend** | present · passive |  | printers *= printer* |  |  |  | upon the least | tree rules |
| 2 | **press** |  | the head clerk and the corporation of printers |  |  |  |  |  | nom press «state intransitive»: of=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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