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title: "Oh yes," replied the counsellor; "I am very fond of reading useful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh yes," replied the counsellor; "I am very fond of reading useful old books, and modern ones as well, with the exception of every-day stories, of which we really have more than enough. Who acts: counsellor, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 83

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"Oh yes," replied the counsellor; "I am very fond of reading useful old books, and modern ones as well, with the exception of every-day stories, of which we really have more than enough.

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**Who acts:** counsellor, we · **What happens:** reply, be, read, have, except · **To what, where:** useful old books, more, day stories · **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, we), 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:pg27200:41:83
# text = "Oh yes," replied the counsellor; "I am very fond of reading useful old books, and modern ones as well, with the exception of every-day stories, of which we really have more than enough.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nmod	_	_
38	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	really	really	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
41	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	obj	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the counsellor |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the counsellor *= counsellor* |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | gerund | the counsellor *= counsellor* *not said here* | useful old books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | more |  |  |  | of the exception of day stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 5 | **except** *in a quote* |  |  | day stories |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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