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title: These two qualities,' she continued, 'place us ants in the highest d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These two qualities,' she continued, 'place us ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings. Who acts: two qualities. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 33

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These two qualities,' she continued, 'place us ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings.

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**Who acts:** two qualities · **What happens:** continue · **To what, where:** place ants

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two qualities), 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:pg27200:180:33
# text = These two qualities,' she continued, 'place us ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
12	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | this two qualities | place ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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