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title: Of course this is only a little incident, but it has its good sound… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course this is only a little incident, but it has its good sound like the poor widow's two mites in the Bible, the sound which echoes in the depth of every human heart; and this is what the poet ought to show and point out--more especially in our own time he ought to sing of this; it does good, i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 96

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Of course this is only a little incident, but it has its good sound like the poor widow's two mites in the Bible, the sound which echoes in the depth of every human heart; and this is what the poet ought to show and point out--more especially in our own time he ought to sing of this; it does good, it mitigates and reconciles!

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**Who acts:** this, incident, sound, poet · **What happens:** be, have, echo, show, point out, sing · **To what, where:** little incident, good sound, depth

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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 (this, incident, sound, poet), 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:pg27200:155:96
# text = Of course this is only a little incident, but it has its good sound like the poor widow's two mites in the Bible, the sound which echoes in the depth of every human heart; and this is what the poet ought to show and point out--more especially in our own time he ought to sing of this; it does good, it mitigates and reconciles!
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	echoes	echo	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	obj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
53	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
67	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
70	mitigates	mitigate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
71	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
72	reconciles	reconcile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	70	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | a little incident |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | incident | incident's good sound |  |  |  | like the poor widow's two mites in the Bible | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 3 | **echo** | present | the sound |  |  | the depth of every human heart |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | ought | the poet |  |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **point out** | infinitive | the poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | present | incident |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **mitigate** | present | incident |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **reconcile** | present | incident *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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