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title: Whatever object in the room he placed his tongue upon immediately re… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever object in the room he placed his tongue upon immediately received voice and speech, and was able to express its thoughts and feelings as readily as the lady herself could do. Who acts: object, wife, tongue. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 15

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Whatever object in the room he placed his tongue upon immediately received voice and speech, and was able to express its thoughts and feelings as readily as the lady herself could do.

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**Who acts:** object, wife, tongue · **What happens:** place, receive, be, express, do, think · **To what, where:** Whatever, thoughts, lady

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, wife, tongue), 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:pg27200:38:15
# text = Whatever object in the room he placed his tongue upon immediately received voice and speech, and was able to express its thoughts and feelings as readily as the lady herself could do.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **place** | past | object in the room | Whatever |  |  |  | upon received voice and speech | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme tongue=Destination |
| 2 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | object in the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **express** | to-infinitive | object in the room *not said here* | tongue's thoughts and feelings |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | could | wife | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality |
| 6 | **think** |  | tongue |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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