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title: "To the Holm!" exclaimed the counsellor, not knowing in what age he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "To the Holm!" exclaimed the counsellor, not knowing in what age he was now existing; "I want to go to Christian's Haven, in Little Turf Street." Who acts: counsellor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 21

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"To the Holm!" exclaimed the counsellor, not knowing in what age he was now existing; "I want to go to Christian's Haven, in Little Turf Street."

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**Who acts:** counsellor · **What happens:** exclaim, not know, exist, want, go · **To what, where:** Holm, age, Haven, Little Turf Street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsellor), 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:pg27200:41:21
# text = "To the Holm!" exclaimed the counsellor, not knowing in what age he was now existing; "I want to go to Christian's Haven, in Little Turf Street."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Holm	Holm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
15	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Haven	Haven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Turf	Turf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	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 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the counsellor |  | the Holm |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to holm=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | the counsellor *not said here* |  |  |  | in what age |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **exist** | past · progressive | Counsellor | what age *not said here* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the counsellor *= counsellor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the counsellor *= counsellor* *not said here* |  | Christian's Haven | Little Turf Street |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to haven=Initial\_Location |

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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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