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title: "Skins, skins," he cried again, "who'll buy skins?" but to all who i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Skins, skins," he cried again, "who'll buy skins?" but to all who inquired the price, his answer was, "a bushel of money." Who acts: Skins, answer, bushel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 107

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"Skins, skins," he cried again, "who'll buy skins?" but to all who inquired the price, his answer was, "a bushel of money."

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**Who acts:** Skins, answer, bushel · **What happens:** cry, buy, inquire, be, answer · **To what, where:** skins, price, bushel · **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 (Skins, answer, bushel), 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:pg27200:71:107
# text = "Skins, skins," he cried again, "who'll buy skins?" but to all who inquired the price, his answer was, "a bushel of money."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Skins and skins |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future |  | skins |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past |  | the price |  |  |  | to all | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | bushel's answer | a bushel |  |  |  | of money | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** |  | bushel |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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