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title: He is well read, a remarkable Oriental scholar, and has a good judgm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He is well read, a remarkable Oriental scholar, and has a good judgment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 12

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He is well read, a remarkable Oriental scholar, and has a good judgment.

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**What happens:** read, have · **To what, where:** deal, good judgment

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:103:12
# text = He is well read, a remarkable Oriental scholar, and has a good judgment.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · passive |  | deal |  |  |  | a remarkable Oriental scholar *obl*; well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a good judgment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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