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title: Only think," he said, "She is going to the rich innkeeper's, at the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Only think," he said, "She is going to the rich innkeeper's, at the hotel in Herning, many miles west from here. Who acts: boatman, Christina. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 88

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Only think," he said, "She is going to the rich innkeeper's, at the hotel in Herning, many miles west from here.

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**Who acts:** boatman, Christina · **What happens:** think, say, go · **To what, where:** many miles, hotel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman, Christina), 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:pg27200:51:88
# text = Only think," he said, "She is going to the rich innkeeper's, at the hotel in Herning, many miles west from here.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Herning	Herning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
26	west	west	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | boatman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | Christina | many miles |  | the hotel in Herning |  | to the rich innkeeper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to innkeeper=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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