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title: Rudy pressed his hand, and replied, "A letter would not reach Him up… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy pressed his hand, and replied, "A letter would not reach Him up above; it would not give him back whom we have lost." Who acts: Rudy, letter, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 59

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Rudy pressed his hand, and replied, "A letter would not reach Him up above; it would not give him back whom we have lost."

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**Who acts:** Rudy, letter, we · **What happens:** press, reply, not reach up, not give, lose · **To what, where:** hand, Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, letter, 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:pg27200:54:59
# text = Rudy pressed his hand, and replied, "A letter would not reach Him up above; it would not give him back whom we have lost."
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	above	above	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | Rudy | Rudy's hand |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **reach up** *in a quote* | would | a letter | Rudy |  |  |  | above *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | would | letter |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality |

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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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