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title: But the poor boy with the wooden shoes was quite ashamed; he pulled… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the poor boy with the wooden shoes was quite ashamed; he pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he was of opinion that the bell ought to be sought at the right, for there was all that was grand and magnificent. Who acts: poor bo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 48

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But the poor boy with the wooden shoes was quite ashamed; he pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he was of opinion that the bell ought to be sought at the right, for there was all that was grand and magnificent.

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**Who acts:** poor boy, boy, that · **What happens:** be, pull, say, not walk, seek · **To what, where:** bell, right · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor boy, boy, that), 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:pg27200:9:48
# text = But the poor boy with the wooden shoes was quite ashamed; he pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he was of opinion that the bell ought to be sought at the right, for there was all that was grand and magnificent.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	57	det:predet	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the poor boy with the wooden shoes |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | at the short sleeves of boy's jacket | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at sleeve=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **walk** | could | boy |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | of opinion | tree rules |
| 7 | **seek** | ought · passive |  | the bell |  | the right |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at right=Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** |  | that *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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