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title: The Lord has been good to you in giving you abilities, and He has al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lord has been good to you in giving you abilities, and He has also been good in placing you among kind people. Who acts: Lord, Professor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 3

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The Lord has been good to you in giving you abilities, and He has also been good in placing you among kind people.

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**Who acts:** Lord, Professor · **What happens:** be, give, place · **To what, where:** you, abilities

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, Professor), 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:pg27200:147:3
# text = The Lord has been good to you in giving you abilities, and He has also been good in placing you among kind people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	abilities	ability	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | the Lord |  | you |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the Lord *not said here* | abilities | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ability=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | Professor |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **place** | gerund | Professor *not said here* | you |  |  |  | among kind people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme among people=Destination |

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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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