--- title: "Most certainly I shall," replied Jack the Dullard; and again the br… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Most certainly I shall," replied Jack the Dullard; and again the brothers laughed and rode on, and thus they got far in advance of him; but-- Who acts: Most, brothers, Jack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, brothers, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:28:45 # text = "Most certainly I shall," replied Jack the Dullard; and again the brothers laughed and rode on, and thus they got far in advance of him; but-- 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 nsubj _ _ 3 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Dullard Dullard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 thus thus ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Most | Jack | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=Topic | | 2 | **laugh** | past | the brothers | | | | again | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ride on** | past | the brothers *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | advance of Jack | | far, thus *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **advance** | | Jack | | | | | | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/46/) - ↑ back to [An Old Story Told Anew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/)