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title: It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing--c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing--come, let us be men.” Who acts: education, taste. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 11

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It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing--come, let us be men.”

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**Who acts:** education, taste · **What happens:** be, have, come, let · **To what, where:** great fault, taste, us, men

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (education, taste), 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:pg1597:9:11
# text = It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing--come, let us be men.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | education | a great fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | no taste |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | no taste |  |  |  |  | witty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | no taste *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | infinitive |  | men |  |  |  |  | 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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