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title: That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood; but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any one ought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at. Who acts: That, she, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 2

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That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood; but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any one ought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at.

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**Who acts:** That, she, people · **What happens:** be, not charm, understand, laugh · **To what, where:** all, word, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, she, people), 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:pg27200:139:2
# text = That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood; but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any one ought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
37	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
45	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | That |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **charm** | past · progressive | she |  |  | all |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **understand** | present · passive |  | the word |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  | her way |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as any one | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | ought | people |  |  |  |  | any one *obl*; talk *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | people *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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