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title: "There is really a great deal to be seen in Europe," says the young… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "There is really a great deal to be seen in Europe," says the young American, "and we have seen it in a week, according to the directions of the great traveller" (and here he mentions the name of one of his contemporaries) "in his celebrated work, 'How to See All Europe in a Week.'" Who acts: great 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 31

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"There is really a great deal to be seen in Europe," says the young American, "and we have seen it in a week, according to the directions of the great traveller" (and here he mentions the name of one of his contemporaries) "in his celebrated work, 'How to See All Europe in a Week.'"

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**Who acts:** great deal, we, island · **What happens:** be, see, say, accord, mention, celebrate · **To what, where:** Europe, deal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great deal, we, island), 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:pg27200:191:31
# text = "There is really a great deal to be seen in Europe," says the young American, "and we have seen it in a week, according to the directions of the great traveller" (and here he mentions the name of one of his contemporaries) "in his celebrated work, 'How to See All Europe in a Week.'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	case	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	61	advmod	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
62	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
63	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	Week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a great deal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | a great deal *not said here* |  |  | Europe |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | deal |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | island |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **celebrate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | all Europe |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer europe=Stimulus |
| 9 | **work** *in a quote* |  | island |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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