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title: One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it." Who acts: One, other. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 190

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One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it."

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**Who acts:** One, other · **What happens:** be, imagine, describe · **To what, where:** anything, all, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other), 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:pg27200:134:190
# text = One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	expl	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	csubj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	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 | One of these |  |  |  |  | beautiful, wonderfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | can | no one in the world | anything |  | all |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the other |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | One of these *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | world |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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