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title: "None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time quite in confusion. Who acts: mother, beetle maidens. 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 pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 82

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"None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time quite in confusion.

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**Who acts:** mother, beetle maidens · **What happens:** engage, say, titter · **To what, where:** None · **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 (mother, beetle maidens), 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:pg27200:8:82
# text = "None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time quite in confusion.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tittered	titter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | None |  |  | yet |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | frogs's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **titter** | past | the beetle maidens |  |  |  | again; time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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