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title: How did you get all this money?" asked Great Claus, staring with wid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How did you get all this money?" asked Great Claus, staring with wide open eyes at his neighbor's treasures. Who acts: you, neighbor. 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 of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 142

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How did you get all this money?" asked Great Claus, staring with wide open eyes at his neighbor's treasures.

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**Who acts:** you, neighbor · **What happens:** get, ask, stare, treasure · **To what, where:** money, Great · **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 (you, neighbor), 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:pg27200:71:142
# text = How did you get all this money?" asked Great Claus, staring with wide open eyes at his neighbor's treasures.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
12	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | you | all money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  |  | Great |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent great=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stare** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with wide open eyes; at Great's neighbor's treasures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **treasure** *in a quote* |  | Great's neighbor |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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