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title: "Ah, yes, and you were a dear, good mistress," said Martha, "I shall… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, yes, and you were a dear, good mistress," said Martha, "I shall never forget how kind you and your husband were to me." Who acts: you, Martha. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 130

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"Ah, yes, and you were a dear, good mistress," said Martha, "I shall never forget how kind you and your husband were to me."

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**Who acts:** you, Martha · **What happens:** be, say, not forget · **To what, where:** dear good mistress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Martha), 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:pg27200:46:130
# text = "Ah, yes, and you were a dear, good mistress," said Martha, "I shall never forget how kind you and your husband were to me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | you | a dear good mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Martha |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | shall | Martha |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | to Martha | tree rules |

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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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