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title: "Oh," said the other beetles, "this fellow that we have received int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh," said the other beetles, "this fellow that we have received into our family is nothing but a complete vagabond. Who acts: other beetles, fellow. 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 pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 92

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"Oh," said the other beetles, "this fellow that we have received into our family is nothing but a complete vagabond.

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**Who acts:** other beetles, fellow · **What happens:** say, receive, be · **To what, where:** fellow, family, nothing · **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 (other beetles, fellow), 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:pg27200:8:92
# text = "Oh," said the other beetles, "this fellow that we have received into our family is nothing but a complete vagabond.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	parataxis	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other beetles |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **receive** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this fellow |  | our family |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this fellow | nothing |  |  |  |  | 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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