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title: "Where can Rudy and Babette be in this awful weather?" said the mill… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Where can Rudy and Babette be in this awful weather?" said the miller. Who acts: Rudy, miller. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 60

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"Where can Rudy and Babette be in this awful weather?" said the miller.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, miller · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** awful weather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, miller), 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:pg27200:66:60
# text = "Where can Rudy and Babette be in this awful weather?" said the miller.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Rudy and Babette |  |  | this awful weather |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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