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title: "But supposing the climate and the material are not good for much,"… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But supposing the climate and the material are not good for much," said the fifth brother, "that would be very unfortunate for you, and have an influence over your experiments. Who acts: material, fifth brother, that, your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 108

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"But supposing the climate and the material are not good for much," said the fifth brother, "that would be very unfortunate for you, and have an influence over your experiments.

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**Who acts:** material, fifth brother, that, your · **What happens:** suppose, not be, say, be, have, experiment · **To what, where:** climate, influence, experiments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (material, fifth brother, that, 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:pg27200:177:108
# text = "But supposing the climate and the material are not good for much," said the fifth brother, "that would be very unfortunate for you, and have an influence over your experiments.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the climate |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent climate=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the material |  |  |  |  | for much; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fifth brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | would | that |  |  |  |  | for you; unfortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the fifth brother *not said here* | a influence |  | your experiments |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
| 6 | **experiment** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom experiment «act intransitive»: 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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