---
title: "'I certainly am vexed,' said the basket; 'inwardly vexed, more than… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I certainly am vexed,' said the basket; 'inwardly vexed, more than any one can imagine. Who acts: one. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/75/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/) / 75

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 75

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"'I certainly am vexed,' said the basket; 'inwardly vexed, more than any one can imagine.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** vex, say, imagine · **To what, where:** I, basket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:35:75
# text = "'I certainly am vexed,' said the basket; 'inwardly vexed, more than any one can imagine.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	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	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	inwardly	inwardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the basket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vex** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | inwardly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **imagine** *in a quote* | can | any one |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/74/)
- next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/76/)
- ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)