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title: A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, “What a beautiful arabesque!” Who acts: Herschel, correct imagination. A
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 104

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A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel\* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, “What a beautiful arabesque!”

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**Who acts:** Herschel, correct imagination · **What happens:** create, place, copy, exclaim, arabesque · **To what, where:** quantity, rank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herschel, correct imagination), 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:pg1597:6:104
# text = A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, “What a beautiful arabesque!”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pseudo	pseudo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Herschel	Herschel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
33	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	without	without	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	parataxis	_	_
46	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	52	nsubj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	arabesque	arabesque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past · perfect | Herschel *not said here* | quantity |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | a correct imagination than that *not said here* | quantity |  | rank and file |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rank=Destination |
| 3 | **copy** | participle | a correct imagination than that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by some skilful painter's hand | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hand=Destination |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | without doubt; involuntarily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **arabesque** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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