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title: Everyday necessity is the stagnant pool of life--no lovely picture r… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyday necessity is the stagnant pool of life--no lovely picture reflects itself therein. Who acts: Everyday necessity, lovely picture. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 71

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Everyday necessity is the stagnant pool of life--no lovely picture reflects itself therein.

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**Who acts:** Everyday necessity, lovely picture · **What happens:** be, reflect · **To what, where:** stagnant pool, necessity

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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 (Everyday necessity, lovely picture), 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:pg1597:6:71
# text = Everyday necessity is the stagnant pool of life--no lovely picture reflects itself therein.
1	Everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stagnant	stagnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reflects	reflect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Everyday necessity | the stagnant pool |  |  |  | of life | tree rules |
| 2 | **reflect** | present | no lovely picture | necessity |  |  |  | therein *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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