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title: "Hast thou a lover?" asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hast thou a lover?" asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on love just then. Who acts: thoughts, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 12

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"Hast thou a lover?" asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on love just then.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, Rudy · **What happens:** have, ask, be, think · **To what, where:** thou, Rudy, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Rudy), 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:pg27200:56:12
# text = "Hast thou a lover?" asked Rudy; all his thoughts were naturally on love just then.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rudy's thoughts |  |  | love | then | naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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