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title: But the lawyer did not like such jokes, and he would say as he had j… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 62

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But the lawyer did not like such jokes, and he would say as he had just said, "How can anyone put such nonsense into a child's head! what absurd fancies there are!"

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**Who acts:** lawyer, anyone · **What happens:** not like, say, put, be · **To what, where:** such jokes, such nonsense, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lawyer, anyone), 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:pg27200:73:62
# text = But the lawyer did not like such jokes, and he would say as he had just said, "How can anyone put such nonsense into a child's head! what absurd fancies there are!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	ccomp	_	_
34	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the lawyer | such jokes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot joke=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | would | lawyer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | lawyer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | can | anyone | such nonsense |  | a child's head |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nonsense=Goal |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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