--- title: That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will say he was l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will say he was lively, good-looking round, and fat; he was both in appearance and character a complete contradiction to his profession. " Who acts: That, I, temper. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerfu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Cheerful Temper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 3 That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will say he was lively, good-looking round, and fat; he was both in appearance and character a complete contradiction to his profession. " **Who acts:** That, I, temper · **What happens:** have, do, say, be, look round · **To what, where:** nothing, appearance · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, temper), 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:pg27200:16:3 # text = That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will say he was lively, good-looking round, and fat; he was both in appearance and character a complete contradiction to his profession. " 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 lively lively ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 22 round round ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 both both CCONJ CC _ 31 cc:preconj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 contradiction contradiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 profession profession NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | That | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with the good temper | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | temper | | | | | lively *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **look round** | gerund | | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | temper | | | appearance and character and a complete contradiction to temper's profession | | | tree rules | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/4/) - ↑ back to [A Cheerful Temper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/)