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title: And, after all, the best way in everything you undertake, great as w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And, after all, the best way in everything you undertake, great as well as small, is to expect no thanks for anything you may do, even when it refers to "soup from a sausage skewer." Who acts: all, you, thanks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 23

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And, after all, the best way in everything you undertake, great as well as small, is to expect no thanks for anything you may do, even when it refers to "soup from a sausage skewer."

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**Who acts:** all, you, thanks · **What happens:** way, undertake, be, do, refer · **To what, where:** great, everything, soup, sausage skewer

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, you, thanks), 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:pg27200:182:23
# text = And, after all, the best way in everything you undertake, great as well as small, is to expect no thanks for anything you may do, even when it refers to "soup from a sausage skewer."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	undertake	undertake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **way** |  | all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **undertake** | present | you | great |  | everything |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | expect *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **refer** | present | thanks | soup |  | a sausage skewer |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soup=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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