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description: Justice must still be carried out, even when one has relations and good friends among the prize committee; but that the snail should have received the second prize, I consider almost an insult to myself." Who acts: one, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 3

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Justice must still be carried out, even when one has relations and good friends among the prize committee; but that the snail should have received the second prize, I consider almost an insult to myself."

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**Who acts:** one, I · **What happens:** carry out, have, receive, consider · **To what, where:** Justice, relations, snail, insult, myself

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I), 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:pg27200:153:3
# text = Justice must still be carried out, even when one has relations and good friends among the prize committee; but that the snail should have received the second prize, I consider almost an insult to myself."
1	Justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | must · passive |  | Justice |  |  | still |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | one | relations and good friends |  |  |  | among the prize committee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | should · perfect · passive |  | the snail |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme prize=Location |
| 4 | **consider** | present | I | a insult | myself |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent insult=Attribute |

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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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