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title: It is pleasing to be convinced that you have settled a matter by you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is pleasing to be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it. Who acts: answer, you, violin, your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 46

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It is pleasing to be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it.

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**Who acts:** answer, you, violin, your · **What happens:** please, be, settle, make, sleep, reply · **To what, where:** matter, something, you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, you, violin, your), 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:pg27200:142:46
# text = It is pleasing to be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	both	both	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **please** | present · progressive | answer |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | present · perfect | you | a matter |  |  |  | by your reply | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | answer | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | answer *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sleep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sleep** | past | violin |  |  |  |  | upon answer; both, well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **reply** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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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