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title: Every one of his movements is comic, and is sure to throw the house… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one of his movements is comic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter; and yet there is no art in it all--it is complete nature. Who acts: one, art, public. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 3

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Every one of his movements is comic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter; and yet there is no art in it all--it is complete nature.

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**Who acts:** one, art, public · **What happens:** be, throw, move, convulse · **To what, where:** house, convulsions, complete nature, laughter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, art, public), 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:pg27200:106:3
# text = Every one of his movements is comic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter; and yet there is no art in it all--it is complete nature.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	convulsions	convulsion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every one of public's movements |  |  |  |  | comic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | every one of public's movements *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | every one of public's movements *not said here* | the house |  |  |  | into convulsions of laughter *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer house=Theme into convulsion=Result |
| 4 | **be** | present | no art in laughter |  |  | there | yet | all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | art | complete nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **move** |  | public |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **convulse** |  |  | laughter |  |  |  |  | nom convulsion «state 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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