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title: But just look at all the others, are they not the prettiest little d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But just look at all the others, are they not the prettiest little ducklings you ever saw? Who acts: you, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 18

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But just look at all the others, are they not the prettiest little ducklings you ever saw?

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**Who acts:** you, others · **What happens:** look, not be, see · **To what, where:** prettiest little ducklings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, others), 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:pg27200:201:18
# text = But just look at all the others, are they not the prettiest little ducklings you ever saw?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at all others | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at other=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | others *= other* | the prettiest little ducklings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | you | the prettiest little ducklings *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duckling=Stimulus |

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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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