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title: Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each,' observed the ot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each,' observed the other: 'it will be a hard winter, and last year we got fourteen dollars a load'--and they were gone. ' Who acts: firewood, we, loads. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 10

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Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each,' observed the other: 'it will be a hard winter, and last year we got fourteen dollars a load'--and they were gone. '

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**Who acts:** firewood, we, loads · **What happens:** observe, be, get · **To what, where:** other, hard winter, fourteen dollars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firewood, we, loads), 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:pg27200:98:10
# text = Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each,' observed the other: 'it will be a hard winter, and last year we got fourteen dollars a load'--and they were gone. '
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | future | firewood | a hard winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | we | fourteen dollars  a load |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dollar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | loads *= load* |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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