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title: The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy managem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy management refused in future to have any spectators up in the flies. Who acts: sausage, worthy management. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 46

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The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy management refused in future to have any spectators up in the flies.

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**Who acts:** sausage, worthy management · **What happens:** be, refuse, not have up · **To what, where:** one, future, spectators

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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 (sausage, worthy management), 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:pg27200:139:46
# text = The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy management refused in future to have any spectators up in the flies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	weightiest	weighty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	management	management	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the sausage | one |  |  |  | of the weightiest reasons | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the worthy management |  |  | future |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have up** | to-infinitive | the worthy management *not said here* | any spectators |  |  |  | in the flies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectator=Patient |

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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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