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title: With what may be called great aptitude, if it was not genius the gra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: With what may be called great aptitude, if it was not genius the grandmother had taken as it were the flavor of this and of that poet, and had added a little devilry, and then corked up the bottles for use during all future times. Who acts: spirit, genius. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 146

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With what may be called great aptitude, if it was not genius the grandmother had taken as it were the flavor of this and of that poet, and had added a little devilry, and then corked up the bottles for use during all future times.

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**Who acts:** spirit, genius · **What happens:** call, not be, take, be, add, cork up · **To what, where:** great aptitude, genius, grandmother, little devilry, bottles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, genius), 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:pg27200:211:146
# text = With what may be called great aptitude, if it was not genius the grandmother had taken as it were the flavor of this and of that poet, and had added a little devilry, and then corked up the bottles for use during all future times.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	aptitude	aptitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	flavor	flavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	devilry	devilry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	corked	cork	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	during	during	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
47	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | may · passive |  | great aptitude |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: what=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | spirit | genius |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | genius *not said here* | the grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | spirit |  |  |  |  | as the flavor and that poet; of this | tree rules |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · perfect |  | a little devilry |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devilry=Patient |
| 6 | **cork up** | participle |  | the bottles |  |  | then; time | for use | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Destination |

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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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