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title: "This is surely," thought he, "an old village schoolmaster, a perfec… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "This is surely," thought he, "an old village schoolmaster, a perfect original, such as one meets with sometimes even in Jutland." Who acts: This, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 80

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"This is surely," thought he, "an old village schoolmaster, a perfect original, such as one meets with sometimes even in Jutland."

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**Who acts:** This, one · **What happens:** be, think, meet · **To what, where:** Counsellor · **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 (This, one), 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:pg27200:41:80
# text = "This is surely," thought he, "an old village schoolmaster, a perfect original, such as one meets with sometimes even in Jutland."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
23	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Counsellor |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | present | one |  |  |  |  | with Jutland | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jutland=Co-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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