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title: But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil can harm one. Who acts: one, maid, nothing evil. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 16

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But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil can harm one.

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**Who acts:** one, maid, nothing evil · **What happens:** not do, think, harm · **To what, where:** anything, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first 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, maid, nothing evil), 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:pg27200:112:16
# text = But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil can harm one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	compound	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | one | anything |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **harm** | can | nothing evil | one |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |

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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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