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title: "'Yes, of course,' said the matches, 'let us talk about those who ar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Yes, of course,' said the matches, 'let us talk about those who are the highest born.' Who acts: us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 53

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"'Yes, of course,' said the matches, 'let us talk about those who are the highest born.'

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**Who acts:** us · **What happens:** say, let, talk, be, bear · **To what, where:** matches, us · **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 (us), 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:pg27200:35:53
# text = "'Yes, of course,' said the matches, 'let us talk about those who are the highest born.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the matches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about those | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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