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title: "'Decided talent,' wrote the editor, 'with the usual carelessness. t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Decided talent,' wrote the editor, 'with the usual carelessness. that he can write incorrect verses may be seen in page 25, where there are two false quantities. Who acts: Decided talent, editor, two false quantities. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelft
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 34

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"'Decided talent,' wrote the editor, 'with the usual carelessness. that he can write incorrect verses may be seen in page 25, where there are two false quantities.

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**Who acts:** Decided talent, editor, two false quantities · **What happens:** write, see, be · **To what, where:** editor, incorrect verses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Decided talent, editor, two false quantities), 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:pg27200:103:34
# text = "'Decided talent,' wrote the editor, 'with the usual carelessness. that he can write incorrect verses may be seen in page 25, where there are two false quantities.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Decided	decided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
21	incorrect	incorrect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **write** *in a quote* | past | Decided talent | the editor |  |  |  | with the usual carelessness | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent editor=Theme |
| 2 | **write** *in a quote* | can | editor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | incorrect verses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | two false quantities |  |  | 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:** «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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