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title: Yes, that it has," said she, and then, just as she was going to tell… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, that it has," said she, and then, just as she was going to tell him a great many pretty stories from Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalom, she suddenly shrunk up together, and wagged her head as if she were a frog about to spring. " Who acts: apron, grass. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 50

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Yes, that it has," said she, and then, just as she was going to tell him a great many pretty stories from Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalom, she suddenly shrunk up together, and wagged her head as if she were a frog about to spring. "

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**Who acts:** apron, grass · **What happens:** have, say, go, tell, shrunk up, wag · **To what, where:** great many pretty stories, Denmark, comedies, head, frog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apron, grass), 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:pg27200:80:50
# text = Yes, that it has," said she, and then, just as she was going to tell him a great many pretty stories from Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalom, she suddenly shrunk up together, and wagged her head as if she were a frog about to spring. "
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	comedies	comedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Absalom	Absalom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	shrunk	shrunk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	wagged	wag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	advcl	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | apron |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | grass |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | grass |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | grass *not said here* | a great many pretty stories | Denmark | Holberg's comedies |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
| 5 | **shrunk up** *in a quote* | present | grass |  |  |  |  | about Waldemar and Absalom; suddenly, together *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wag** *in a quote* | past | grass *not said here* | grass's head |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | grass | a frog |  |  | spring |  | 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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