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title: "He is a perfect fop," said Rudy; and this was the first time Rudy h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He is a perfect fop," said Rudy; and this was the first time Rudy had said anything that did not please Babette. Who acts: cousin, perfect fop, this, first time. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 37

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"He is a perfect fop," said Rudy; and this was the first time Rudy had said anything that did not please Babette.

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**Who acts:** cousin, perfect fop, this, first time · **What happens:** be, say, not please · **To what, where:** perfect fop, first time, Rudy, Babette · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousin, perfect fop, this, first time), 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:pg27200:61:37
# text = "He is a perfect fop," said Rudy; and this was the first time Rudy had said anything that did not please Babette.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fop	fop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cousin | a perfect fop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a perfect fop |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | the first time *not said here* | Rudy |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme anything=Manner |
| 5 | **not** **please** | past · do-support |  | Babette |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus babette=Experiencer |

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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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