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title: There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it makes them ill. Who acts: men, smell, brown paper. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 177

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There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it makes them ill.

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**Who acts:** men, smell, brown paper · **What happens:** be, not endure, make, smell · **To what, where:** smell, expenses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, smell, brown paper), 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:pg27200:165:177
# text = There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it makes them ill.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | some men |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **endure** | can | some men | the smell of brown paper |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smell=Circumstance |
| 3 | **make** | present | smell | expenses *= expense* |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
| 4 | **smell** |  | brown paper |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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