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title: Not all can be born cucumbers; there must be other things, too. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not all can be born cucumbers; there must be other things, too. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 6

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Not all can be born cucumbers; there must be other things, too.

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**What happens:** not bear, be · **To what, where:** all, other things

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:19:6
# text = Not all can be born cucumbers; there must be other things, too.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | can · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cucumber=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | other things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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