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title: He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with ple… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with pleasure, not unmingled with awe; but none felt so much respect for him as did the elderly widow of a naval officer. Who acts: Alfred, one, none. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 8

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He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with pleasure, not unmingled with awe; but none felt so much respect for him as did the elderly widow of a naval officer.

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**Who acts:** Alfred, one, none · **What happens:** talk, tell, listen, not unmingl, feel, do · **To what, where:** anecdotes, Alfred, pleasure, much respect, elderly widow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred, one, none), 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:pg27200:7:8
# text = He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with pleasure, not unmingled with awe; but none felt so much respect for him as did the elderly widow of a naval officer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	unmingled	unmingl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | Alfred |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Alfred *not said here* |  | anecdotes |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anecdote=Recipient |
| 3 | **listen** | past | every one |  | Alfred |  |  | with pleasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **unmingl** | participle |  | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  | with awe | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | past | none | much respect |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past | Alfred | the elderly widow of a naval officer |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality |

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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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