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title: Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if on… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large. Who acts: largest green leaf, one, leaf. A sentence of «Anders
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 1

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Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.

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**Who acts:** largest green leaf, one, leaf · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** dock leaf, leaf, apron, head

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (largest green leaf, one, leaf), 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:pg1597:20:1
# text = Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest green leaf in this country | a dock leaf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | leaf |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | leaf |  |  |  |  | like a one whole apron | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | apron |  | one's head in rainy weather |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | leaf |  |  |  |  | as a umbrella; almost, good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | leaf |  |  |  |  | immensely, large *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:** «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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