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title: And what strange things people did say, to be sure! every one whom h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And what strange things people did say, to be sure! every one whom he questioned had a different tale to tell, though they all thought it very beautiful. Who acts: strange things, son, one, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 100

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And what strange things people did say, to be sure! every one whom he questioned had a different tale to tell, though they all thought it very beautiful.

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**Who acts:** strange things, son, one, people · **What happens:** say, be, question, have, tell, think · **To what, where:** one, different tale, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange things, son, one, people), 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:pg27200:35:100
# text = And what strange things people did say, to be sure! every one whom he questioned had a different tale to tell, though they all thought it very beautiful.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | strange things |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* | past | son |  | every one |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | past | every one | a different tale |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | every one *not said here* | a different tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people | tale |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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