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title: "Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on the bag, and stooped his ear down to listen. Who acts: Little, conjuror. 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 69

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"Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on the bag, and stooped his ear down to listen.

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**Who acts:** Little, conjuror · **What happens:** stop, ask, say, tread, stoop down, listen · **To what, where:** conjuror, bag, ear · **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 (Little, conjuror), 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:pg27200:71:69
# text = "Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on the bag, and stooped his ear down to listen.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
13	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | must | Little | the conjuror |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent conjuror=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tread** | past | conjuror |  |  | the bag |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bag=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stoop down** | past | conjuror *not said here* | conjuror's ear |  |  |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme |
| 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | conjuror *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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