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title: They never had a quarrel, but a person can be easily excited to quar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They never had a quarrel, but a person can be easily excited to quarrel when he is naturally hot tempered, for he often shows it in many ways; and this is just what Jurgen did one day when they fell out about the merest trifle. Who acts: terms, person, this, Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 43

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They never had a quarrel, but a person can be easily excited to quarrel when he is naturally hot tempered, for he often shows it in many ways; and this is just what Jurgen did one day when they fell out about the merest trifle.

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**Who acts:** terms, person, this, Jurgen · **What happens:** not have, be, quarrel, temper, show, do · **To what, where:** quarrel, person

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terms, person, this, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:160:43
# text = They never had a quarrel, but a person can be easily excited to quarrel when he is naturally hot tempered, for he often shows it in many ways; and this is just what Jurgen did one day when they fell out about the merest trifle.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
37	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	merest	mere	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
48	trifle	trifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past | terms *= term* | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | can | a person |  |  |  |  | easily, excited *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **temper** | present · passive |  | person |  |  |  | naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | present | person | quarrel |  |  |  | in many ways; often *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in way=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fall out** | past | terms *= term* |  |  |  |  | about the merest trifle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about trifle=Location |

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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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