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title: "I have not deserved this," said Rudy, as he turned away, his cheeks… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have not deserved this," said Rudy, as he turned away, his cheeks burning, and his heart like fire. Who acts: Rudy, cheeks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 37

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"I have not deserved this," said Rudy, as he turned away, his cheeks burning, and his heart like fire.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, cheeks · **What happens:** not deserve, say, turn away, burn · **To what, where:** this, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, cheeks), 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:pg27200:62:37
# text = "I have not deserved this," said Rudy, as he turned away, his cheeks burning, and his heart like fire.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deserve** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Rudy | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn away** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | Rudy's cheeks | Rudy's heart like fire |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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