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title: But there would also be some good stately shops among them. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there would also be some good stately shops among them. Who acts: good shops. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 61

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But there would also be some good stately shops among them.

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**Who acts:** good shops · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good shops), 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:pg1597:7:61
# text = But there would also be some good stately shops among them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | some good shops among ladies |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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