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title: He spoke of this pleasure so heartily that Babette could not resist… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He spoke of this pleasure so heartily that Babette could not resist giving his arm a slight squeeze; and so they walked on together, and talked and chatted like old acquaintances. Who acts: Rudy, Babette, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 160

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He spoke of this pleasure so heartily that Babette could not resist giving his arm a slight squeeze; and so they walked on together, and talked and chatted like old acquaintances.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, Babette, people · **What happens:** speak, not resist, give, walk, talk, chat · **To what, where:** arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Babette, people), 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:pg27200:55:160
# text = He spoke of this pleasure so heartily that Babette could not resist giving his arm a slight squeeze; and so they walked on together, and talked and chatted like old acquaintances.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heartily	heartily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	chatted	chat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | of this pleasure | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **resist** | could | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | Babette *not said here* | Rudy's arm |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent arm=Recipient squeeze=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on together=Trajectory |
| 5 | **talk** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **chat** *speech: other* | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like old acquaintances | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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