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title: It is evidently for the sake of contrast that I and this wretched so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is evidently for the sake of contrast that I and this wretched soul should arrive here exactly at the same time," said the critic. " Who acts: admission, sake. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 159

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It is evidently for the sake of contrast that I and this wretched soul should arrive here exactly at the same time," said the critic. "

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**Who acts:** admission, sake · **What happens:** be, arrive, say · **To what, where:** critic · **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 (admission, sake), 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:pg27200:177:159
# text = It is evidently for the sake of contrast that I and this wretched soul should arrive here exactly at the same time," said the critic. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | admission |  |  |  |  | for the sake; of contrast; evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | should | the sake |  |  | here | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the critic |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent critic=Topic |

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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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