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title: Even if thou couldst return, and at least produce so much, very like… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Even if thou couldst return, and at least produce so much, very likely, when made, the brick would be useless, unless done with a good will, which is always something. Who acts: thou, brick. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 204

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Even if thou couldst return, and at least produce so much, very likely, when made, the brick would be useless, unless done with a good will, which is always something.

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**Who acts:** thou, brick · **What happens:** return, make, be, do · **To what, where:** produce, something

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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 (thou, brick), 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:pg27200:177:204
# text = Even if thou couldst return, and at least produce so much, very likely, when made, the brick would be useless, unless done with a good will, which is always something.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	couldst	could	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
10	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	_
36	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | could | thou | produce at least |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | would | the brick |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the brick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | something |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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