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title: Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely fol… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me? Who acts: something, splendor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 55

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Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?

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**Who acts:** something, splendor · **What happens:** follow, ornament · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, splendor), 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:pg1597:10:55
# text = Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	appos	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	grander	grand	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	ornament	ornament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | future | something |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ornament** | should | splendor |  | me |  |  | thus, wherefore *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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