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title: We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have alw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display." Who acts: We, grand people, old elf king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 14

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We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display."

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**Who acts:** We, grand people, old elf king · **What happens:** go, have, say, wish, make · **To what, where:** grand people, something, great display · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grand people, old elf king), 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:pg27200:31:14
# text = We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	conjurors	conjuror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | some grand people and conjurors |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | some grand people and conjurors | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some grand people and conjurors *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wish** | present | the old elf king |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a great display |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset display=Product |

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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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