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title: Rudy thought all this quite unnecessary. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy thought all this quite unnecessary. Who acts: Rudy. 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 4

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Rudy thought all this quite unnecessary.

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**Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** think

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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), 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:pg27200:62:4
# text = Rudy thought all this quite unnecessary.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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