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title: "Here in this house there ought to be a wedding-day kept," said the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Here in this house there ought to be a wedding-day kept," said the parlor-cat, "or else I would not give a mew for the whole affair." Who acts: parlor cat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 37

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"Here in this house there ought to be a wedding-day kept," said the parlor-cat, "or else I would not give a mew for the whole affair."

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**Who acts:** parlor cat · **What happens:** be, keep, say, not give · **To what, where:** wedding day, mew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlor cat), 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:pg27200:64:37
# text = "Here in this house there ought to be a wedding-day kept," said the parlor-cat, "or else I would not give a mew for the whole affair."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
7	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	parlor	parlor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mew	mew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	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* | to-infinitive | the parlor cat *not said here* | a wedding day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | participle |  | a wedding day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | ought | the parlor cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | would | the parlor cat *= cat* | a mew |  |  |  | for the whole affair | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mew=Theme for affair=Asset |

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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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