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title: Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information. Who acts: such thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 19

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Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information.

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**Who acts:** such thoughts · **What happens:** discourage, go out, collect, require · **To what, where:** majority, world, required information

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such thoughts), 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:pg27200:178:19
# text = Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	discouraged	discourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discourage** | past | some such thoughts as these | the majority |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majority=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go out** | gerund | some such thoughts as these *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | some such thoughts as these *not said here* | the required information |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme |
| 4 | **require** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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