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title: It is a cap that no one need wish for, or laugh at. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a cap that no one need wish for, or laugh at. Who acts: sport, that, one need wish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 18

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It is a cap that no one need wish for, or laugh at.

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**Who acts:** sport, that, one need wish · **What happens:** be, wish, laugh · **To what, where:** cap

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sport, that, one need wish), 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:pg27200:128:18
# text = It is a cap that no one need wish for, or laugh at.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sport | a cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | no one need wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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