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title: The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him. " Who acts: clerk, man, pair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 6

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The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him. "

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**Who acts:** clerk, man, pair · **What happens:** turn, speak, do, look, be, belong · **To what, where:** greater doubt, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, man, pair), 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:pg27200:44:6
# text = The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	nmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nmod	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the clerk |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the clerk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  | with servant | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  | again | at the goloshes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at golosh=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | man |  |  | greater doubt | now |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **belong** | past | the pair on the right or the left |  | servant |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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