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title: "But wherever did you get all these fine beasts?" asked Great Claus. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But wherever did you get all these fine beasts?" asked Great Claus. Who acts: Great Claus. 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 182

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"But wherever did you get all these fine beasts?" asked Great Claus.

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**Who acts:** Great Claus · **What happens:** get, ask · **To what, where:** fine beasts, Great Claus · **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 (Great Claus), 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:pg27200:71:182
# text = "But wherever did you get all these fine beasts?" asked Great Claus.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Great Claus *= claus* | all fine beasts |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Great Claus |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent claus=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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