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title: But this much is clear and plain, that you have not done the least f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But this much is clear and plain, that you have not done the least for your inner development, or you would have produced something else. Who acts: much, you, your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 17

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But this much is clear and plain, that you have not done the least for your inner development, or you would have produced something else.

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**Who acts:** much, you, your · **What happens:** be, not do, produce, develop · **To what, where:** least, you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, you, your), 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:pg27200:157:17
# text = But this much is clear and plain, that you have not done the least for your inner development, or you would have produced something else.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this much |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this much *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present · perfect | you | the least |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **produce** | would · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom development «act 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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