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title: This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a pe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a peculiar one; but for all that, the fir tree looked very well: it was like a little poetry in the dust-heap; and truly there is dust enough in the streets on moving-day. Who acts: This, I, fir tree, tinsel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 23

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This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a peculiar one; but for all that, the fir tree looked very well: it was like a little poetry in the dust-heap; and truly there is dust enough in the streets on moving-day.

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**Who acts:** This, I, fir tree, tinsel, dust, streets · **What happens:** be, take, not think, look, move · **To what, where:** view, tinsel, dust heap

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, fir tree, tinsel), 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:pg27200:138:23
# text = This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a peculiar one; but for all that, the fir tree looked very well: it was like a little poetry in the dust-heap; and truly there is dust enough in the streets on moving-day.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
48	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
49	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
50	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
54	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	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** | past | This | a view and a little poetry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | might · passive |  | a view and a little poetry |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I | tinsel |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the fir tree | a view and a little poetry *not said here* |  |  |  | for all; well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme view=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | tinsel |  |  | the dust heap |  | like a little poetry | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | present | dust in the streets |  |  | there |  | truly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **move** | gerund | the streets *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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