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title: There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world? Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 17

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There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world?

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** do, not see, be · **To what, where:** more, folks

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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 (you, we), 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:pg1597:20:17
# text = There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world?
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · passive |  | more |  | there |  | for us; than all other creatures | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | we | folks |  |  |  | of quality in the world | 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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