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title: She called out to the others, "Let us have a game at being men and w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She called out to the others, "Let us have a game at being men and women, that is something worth playing at." Who acts: neck, us, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 9

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She called out to the others, "Let us have a game at being men and women, that is something worth playing at."

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**Who acts:** neck, us, that · **What happens:** call out, let, have, be, play · **To what, where:** others, us, game, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, us, 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:pg27200:90:9
# text = She called out to the others, "Let us have a game at being men and women, that is something worth playing at."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	conj	_	_
23	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | neck |  | the others |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | neck *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | a game |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at men and women | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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