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title: All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and people said, "That boy will be very clever; he has a remarkable genius." Who acts: glass, people, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 52

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All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and people said, "That boy will be very clever; he has a remarkable genius."

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**Who acts:** glass, people, boy · **What happens:** be, imitate, say, have · **To what, where:** peculiar, remarkable genius · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass, people, boy), 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:pg27200:171:52
# text = All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and people said, "That boy will be very clever; he has a remarkable genius."
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all peculiar or disagreeable |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imitate** | would | glass |  |  |  |  | in a person; directly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | that boy |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | glass | a remarkable genius |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient |

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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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