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title: But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly e… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the reader. Who acts: transition, certain abyss. A sentence of «Anderse
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 36

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But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the reader.

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**Who acts:** transition, certain abyss · **What happens:** endow, demand, yawn

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transition, certain abyss), 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:pg1597:8:36
# text = But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the reader.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	breakneck	breakneck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	yawns	yawn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	threateningly	threateningly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	below	below	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: that=Destination |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | the transition from a commonplace nature to one |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **yawn** | present | a certain abyss |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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