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title: "'No, I don't like to be always talking of what we are,' remarked th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'No, I don't like to be always talking of what we are,' remarked the saucepan; 'let us think of some other amusement; I will begin. Who acts: pleasure, 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 ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 54

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"'No, I don't like to be always talking of what we are,' remarked the saucepan; 'let us think of some other amusement; I will begin.

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**Who acts:** pleasure, us · **What happens:** not like, be, remark, let, think, begin · **To what, where:** saucepan, us

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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 (pleasure, 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:pg27200:35:54
# text = "'No, I don't like to be always talking of what we are,' remarked the saucepan; 'let us think of some other amusement; I will begin.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | pleasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, talk *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle | pleasure *not said here* | the saucepan |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent saucepan=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | pleasure *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of some other amusement | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | future | pleasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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