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title: In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my own mother has told me of such, and I could mention several. Who acts: one, I. 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 ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 91

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In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my own mother has told me of such, and I could mention several.

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**Who acts:** one, I · **What happens:** see, tell, mention · **To what, where:** many beautiful traits, upper classes, own mother, me, several · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg27200:155:91
# text = In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my own mother has told me of such, and I could mention several.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	touchingly	touchingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	traits	trait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | one | many beautiful traits |  | the upper classes |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trait=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | my own mother | me |  |  | of such | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | could | I | several |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent several=Topic |

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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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