--- title: It is the fallacy of the time, and many poets express it, to say tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is the fallacy of the time, and many poets express it, to say that all that is noble is bad and stupid, and that, on the contrary, the lower one goes among the poor, the more brilliant virtues one finds. Who acts: Nobility, many poets, all, lower one. 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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, many poets, all, lower one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:155:89 # text = It is the fallacy of the time, and many poets express it, to say that all that is noble is bad and stupid, and that, on the contrary, the lower one goes among the poor, the more brilliant virtues one finds. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 express express VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 contrary contrary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 among among ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 44 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 virtues virtue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 46 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nsubj _ _ 47 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Nobility | the fallacy and the contrary | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **express** | present | many poets | Nobility | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | many poets *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | noble *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | all | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | all *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | present | the lower one | the brilliant virtues | | the poor | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among poor=Location | | 8 | **find** | present | one | the brilliant virtues *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/90/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)