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title: Something better, something still grander must follow--but what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Something better, something still grander must follow--but what? Who acts: Something. 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 56

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Something better, something still grander must follow--but what?

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**Who acts:** Something · **What happens:** follow

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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), 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:pg1597:10:56
# text = Something better, something still grander must follow--but what?
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grander	grand	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | must | Something |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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