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title: "Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daught… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the marriages certainly will take place. Who acts: Father, two. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 30

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"Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the marriages certainly will take place.

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**Who acts:** Father, two · **What happens:** suppose, tell, reply, prepare, marry, take · **To what, where:** you, visitors, place · **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 (Father, two), 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:pg27200:31:30
# text = "Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the marriages certainly will take place.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | Father |  | you |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prepare** *in a quote* | must | two of my daughters | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | two of my daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | future | two of my daughters *not said here* | place |  |  |  | for the marriages; certainly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for marriage=Beneficiary |

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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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