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title: "But is there not something beautiful in the popular belief that jus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But is there not something beautiful in the popular belief that just as the toad is the ugliest of animals, it should often carry the most precious jewel in its head? Who acts: that, belief. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 131

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"But is there not something beautiful in the popular belief that just as the toad is the ugliest of animals, it should often carry the most precious jewel in its head?

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**Who acts:** that, belief · **What happens:** not be, be, carry · **To what, where:** something, precious jewel, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, belief), 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:pg27200:194:131
# text = "But is there not something beautiful in the popular belief that just as the toad is the ugliest of animals, it should often carry the most precious jewel in its head?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | of animals; ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | should | belief | the precious jewel |  | belief's head |  | often *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jewel=Value in head=Location |

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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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