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title: Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the developments of a century may run wild, as youth often does. Who acts: Nationality, developments, youth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 109

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Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the developments of a century may run wild, as youth often does.

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**Who acts:** Nationality, developments, youth · **What happens:** assert, become, run, do, develop · **To what, where:** Nationality, affectation, century

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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 (Nationality, developments, youth), 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:pg27200:177:109
# text = Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the developments of a century may run wild, as youth often does.
1	Nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	assert	assert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	affectation	affectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assert** | may | Nationality | Nationality |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | present | Nationality | affectation |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | may | the developments of a century |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | youth |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **develop** |  |  | a century |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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