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title: In every action something imperfect may be discovered, something not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In every action something imperfect may be discovered, something not right, which I shall make it my business to find out and expose; that will be something, I fancy." Who acts: that, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 113

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In every action something imperfect may be discovered, something not right, which I shall make it my business to find out and expose; that will be something, I fancy."

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**Who acts:** that, I · **What happens:** discover, make, find out, expose, be, fancy · **To what, where:** something, action

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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 (that, I), 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:pg27200:177:113
# text = In every action something imperfect may be discovered, something not right, which I shall make it my business to find out and expose; that will be something, I fancy."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | may · passive |  | something |  | every action |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | shall |  | action |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary business=Product |
| 3 | **find out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **expose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** | future | that | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fancy** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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