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title: One would suppose it very easy to guess. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One would suppose it very easy to guess. Who acts: One. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 30

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One would suppose it very easy to guess.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** suppose, guess · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. 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:pg27200:18:30
# text = One would suppose it very easy to guess.
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | would | One | house |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 2 | **guess** | to-infinitive | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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