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title: Except ourselves and the cock there is not one in the yard who can b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Except ourselves and the cock there is not one in the yard who can be called talented or polite. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 52

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Except ourselves and the cock there is not one in the yard who can be called talented or polite.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** except, not be, call · **To what, where:** ourselves, one, yard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:145:52
# text = Except ourselves and the cock there is not one in the yard who can be called talented or polite.
1	Except	except	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	talented	talented	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | imperative | you *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  | in the yard | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | can · passive |  | the yard |  |  |  | talented *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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