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title: But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he had been dressed up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you must have been, you old fir-tree." Who acts: number, mice, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 118

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But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he had been dressed up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you must have been, you old fir-tree."

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**Who acts:** number, mice, you · **What happens:** go on, dress up, say, be, tree · **To what, where:** number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, mice, you), 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:pg27200:33:118
# text = But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he had been dressed up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you must have been, you old fir-tree."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | number |  |  |  |  | about Christmas eve | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about eve=Location |
| 2 | **dress up** | past · perfect · passive |  | number |  |  |  | with cakes and lights | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tree** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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