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title: "What does this mean?" said Great Claus; so he ran off directly to L… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What does this mean?" said Great Claus; so he ran off directly to Little Claus, and asked, "Where did you get so much money?" Who acts: this, Great, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 100

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"What does this mean?" said Great Claus; so he ran off directly to Little Claus, and asked, "Where did you get so much money?"

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**Who acts:** this, Great, you · **What happens:** mean, say, run off, ask, get · **To what, where:** much money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Great, you), 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:pg27200:71:100
# text = "What does this mean?" said Great Claus; so he ran off directly to Little Claus, and asked, "Where did you get so much money?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
19	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Great |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run off** | past | Great |  |  |  |  | to Little *result*; directly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to little=Result |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Great *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | much money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |

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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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