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title: None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of fee… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling. Who acts: None. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 19

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None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

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**Who acts:** None · **What happens:** have, sense · **To what, where:** delicate sense, feeling

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None), 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:pg1597:4:19
# text = None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | could · perfect | None | such delicate sense of feeling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
| 2 | **sense** |  |  | feeling |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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