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title: It is well worth hearing; but for all that, we don't at all forget P… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is well worth hearing; but for all that, we don't at all forget Poultry Meg, who is sitting cheerful and comfortable in the charming fowl-house. Who acts: idea, we, Poultry. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 130

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It is well worth hearing; but for all that, we don't at all forget Poultry Meg, who is sitting cheerful and comfortable in the charming fowl-house.

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**Who acts:** idea, we, Poultry · **What happens:** be, do, not forget, sit · **To what, where:** worth hearing, Poultry

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, we, Poultry), 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:pg27200:149:130
# text = It is well worth hearing; but for all that, we don't at all forget Poultry Meg, who is sitting cheerful and comfortable in the charming fowl-house.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Meg	Meg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
30	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | idea | worth hearing |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | present | we *not said here* | Poultry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | present · progressive | Poultry |  |  |  |  | cheerful *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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