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title: Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the soup… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the soup, much less prepared it. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 9

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Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the soup, much less prepared it.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** hear, taste, prepare · **To what, where:** proverb, one

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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 (one), 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:pg27200:178:9
# text = Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the soup, much less prepared it.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | every one | the proverb |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proverb=Stimulus |
| 2 | **taste** | past · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  | ever |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme soup=Attribute |
| 3 | **prepare** | past |  | proverb |  |  |  | less *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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