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title: The verses might be better, to be sure; the thoughts are sound, thou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The verses might be better, to be sure; the thoughts are sound, though there is certainly a good deal of common-place among them. Who acts: verses, thoughts, good deal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 8

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The verses might be better, to be sure; the thoughts are sound, though there is certainly a good deal of common-place among them.

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**Who acts:** verses, thoughts, good deal · **What happens:** be, deal · **To what, where:** sound, common place

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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 (verses, thoughts, good deal), 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:pg27200:103:8
# text = The verses might be better, to be sure; the thoughts are sound, though there is certainly a good deal of common-place among them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | the verses |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the verses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the thoughts | sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | a good deal of common place among thoughts |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | common place among thoughts |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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