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title: "The word was so easy, the deed so small," she said, "the joy it aff… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The word was so easy, the deed so small," she said, "the joy it afforded me was infinitely great and sweet!" Who acts: word, girl, joy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 27

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"The word was so easy, the deed so small," she said, "the joy it afforded me was infinitely great and sweet!"

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**Who acts:** word, girl, joy · **What happens:** be, say, afford · **To what, where:** joy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, girl, joy), 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:pg27200:22:27
# text = "The word was so easy, the deed so small," she said, "the joy it afforded me was infinitely great and sweet!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	afforded	afford	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the word |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **afford** *in a quote* | past | word | the joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the joy |  |  |  |  | great, infinitely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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