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title: Those that are most in favor are from the French, but they are not g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Those that are most in favor are from the French, but they are not good for little girls. Who acts: Those, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 28

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Those that are most in favor are from the French, but they are not good for little girls.

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**Who acts:** Those, others · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** French

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, others), 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:pg27200:127:28
# text = Those that are most in favor are from the French, but they are not good for little girls.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	1	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | most *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Those |  |  | the French |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | for little girls; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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