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title: One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old bou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders. Who acts: One. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 20

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One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** feel · **To what, where:** novice, venerable old boulders

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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:pg27200:136:20
# text = One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	novice	novice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
8	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | One | quite novice |  | this venerable old boulders |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent novice=Theme beside boulder=Location |

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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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