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title: "He says," replied Little Claus, "that there are three bottles of wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He says," replied Little Claus, "that there are three bottles of wine for us, standing in the corner, by the oven." Who acts: Claus, Little 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 55

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"He says," replied Little Claus, "that there are three bottles of wine for us, standing in the corner, by the oven."

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**Who acts:** Claus, Little Claus · **What happens:** say, reply, be, stand · **To what, where:** three bottles, corner · **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 (Claus, Little 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:pg27200:71:55
# text = "He says," replied Little Claus, "that there are three bottles of wine for us, standing in the corner, by the oven."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Claus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Little Claus |  |  |  |  | for us | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | three bottles |  |  |  | of wine | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund | Little Claus *not said here* |  |  | the corner |  | by the oven | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |

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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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