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title: Rudy felt inclined to laugh sometimes at the absurd dress and walk o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy felt inclined to laugh sometimes at the absurd dress and walk of the foreign ladies; but Babette did not wish to make fun of them, for she knew there must be some good, excellent people amongst them; she, herself, had a godmother, who was a high-born English lady. Who acts: Rudy, Babette, arm, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 161

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Rudy felt inclined to laugh sometimes at the absurd dress and walk of the foreign ladies; but Babette did not wish to make fun of them, for she knew there must be some good, excellent people amongst them; she, herself, had a godmother, who was a high-born English lady.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, Babette, arm, good excellent people, godmother · **What happens:** feel, laugh, walk, not wish, make, know · **To what, where:** absurd dress, fun, godmother, born English lady · **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, arm, good excellent 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:pg27200:55:161
# text = Rudy felt inclined to laugh sometimes at the absurd dress and walk of the foreign ladies; but Babette did not wish to make fun of them, for she knew there must be some good, excellent people amongst them; she, herself, had a godmother, who was a high-born English lady.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
40	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
54	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	amod	_	_
57	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* |  |  | the absurd dress |  | sometimes *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the foreign ladies | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of lady=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Babette *not said here* | fun of people |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 6 | **know** | past | arm |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **be** | must | some good excellent people amongst ladies |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | past | arm | a godmother and a born English lady |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Patient |
| 9 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is a** | past | a godmother and a born English lady | a born English lady |  |  |  |  | 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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