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title: Everything looked more beautiful than in the theatre at Copenhagen,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything looked more beautiful than in the theatre at Copenhagen, but then Joanna had been there, and--could it be? Who acts: Everything, Joanna, music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 108

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Everything looked more beautiful than in the theatre at Copenhagen, but then Joanna had been there, and--could it be?

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**Who acts:** Everything, Joanna, music · **What happens:** look, be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Joanna, music), 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:pg27200:203:108
# text = Everything looked more beautiful than in the theatre at Copenhagen, but then Joanna had been there, and--could it be?
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Joanna |  |  |  | then | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **can** | could | music |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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