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title: She is only four years old, but can say her prayers as well as any o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She is only four years old, but can say her prayers as well as any of the rest. Who acts: shoulder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 8

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She is only four years old, but can say her prayers as well as any of the rest.

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**Who acts:** shoulder · **What happens:** be, say, pray · **To what, where:** prayers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoulder), 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:pg27200:123:8
# text = She is only four years old, but can say her prayers as well as any of the rest.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | shoulder |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | shoulder *not said here* | shoulder's prayers |  |  |  | as any | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** |  | shoulder |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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