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title: It cannot be less with you!” exclaimed the woman--and thence the pro… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It cannot be less with you!” exclaimed the woman--and thence the proverb, “It is so mahogany!”--(that is, so excessively fine)--is derived. Who acts: mahogany, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 22

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It cannot be less with you!” exclaimed the woman--and thence the proverb, “It is so mahogany!”--(that is, so excessively fine)--is derived.

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**Who acts:** mahogany, that · **What happens:** not be, exclaim, be, derive · **To what, where:** woman, mahogany

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mahogany, that), 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:pg1597:23:22
# text = It cannot be less with you!” exclaimed the woman--and thence the proverb, “It is so mahogany!”--(that is, so excessively fine)--is derived.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	excessively	excessively	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | can | mahogany |  |  |  |  | with you; less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the woman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | mahogany | mahogany |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **derive** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |

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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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