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title: "You speak without knowing the facts," replied the beetle; "don't yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You speak without knowing the facts," replied the beetle; "don't you see that I am a prisoner?" Who acts: You, beetle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 130

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"You speak without knowing the facts," replied the beetle; "don't you see that I am a prisoner?"

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**Who acts:** You, beetle · **What happens:** speak, know, reply, do, not see, be · **To what, where:** facts, prisoner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, beetle), 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:pg27200:8:130
# text = "You speak without knowing the facts," replied the beetle; "don't you see that I am a prisoner?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | gerund | the beetle *not said here* | the facts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the beetle |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | beetle | a prisoner |  |  |  |  | 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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