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title: "In the pretty turmoil here below, All is a vain and paltry show. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "In the pretty turmoil here below, All is a vain and paltry show. Who acts: All. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 210

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"In the pretty turmoil here below, All is a vain and paltry show.

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**Who acts:** All · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** vain show, pretty turmoil

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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:pg27200:143:210
# text = "In the pretty turmoil here below, All is a vain and paltry show.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	paltry	paltry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | All | a vain show |  | the pretty turmoil |  |  | tree rules |

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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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