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title: One must be able to adapt one's self to time and circumstances, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One must be able to adapt one's self to time and circumstances, and if there is a law that the 'maiden' is to be called 'hand-rammer,' why, she must be called 'hand-rammer,' and no pouting will avail, for everything has its measure." Who acts: One, pouting, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 19

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One must be able to adapt one's self to time and circumstances, and if there is a law that the 'maiden' is to be called 'hand-rammer,' why, she must be called 'hand-rammer,' and no pouting will avail, for everything has its measure."

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**Who acts:** One, pouting, everything · **What happens:** be, adapt, call, avail, have, measure · **To what, where:** one, law, hand rammer, elder, measure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, pouting, everything), 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:pg27200:200:19
# text = One must be able to adapt one's self to time and circumstances, and if there is a law that the 'maiden' is to be called 'hand-rammer,' why, she must be called 'hand-rammer,' and no pouting will avail, for everything has its measure."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	adapt	adapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
30	'	's	PART	POS	_	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	rammer	rammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
36	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
42	'	's	PART	POS	_	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	rammer	rammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	pouting	pouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	avail	avail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	56	nsubj	_	_
56	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | One |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adapt** | to-infinitive | One *not said here* | one |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | One *not said here* | a law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | hand rammer |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **call** | must · passive |  | elder |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **avail** | future | no pouting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present | everything | pouting's measure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |
| 8 | **measure** |  | pouting |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: 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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