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title: Nobility is a distinction; it is a gold coin that bears the stamp of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobility is a distinction; it is a gold coin that bears the stamp of its own value. Who acts: Nobility. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 88

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Nobility is a distinction; it is a gold coin that bears the stamp of its own value.

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**Who acts:** Nobility · **What happens:** be, value · **To what, where:** distinction, gold coin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobility), 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:pg27200:155:88
# text = Nobility is a distinction; it is a gold coin that bears the stamp of its own value.
1	Nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nobility | a distinction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Nobility | a gold coin and bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **value** |  | Nobility |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=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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