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title: The overpowering great variegated whole must be divided into small p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The overpowering great variegated whole must be divided into small portions, and pressed together like a plaything, if it is to be understood and described. Who acts: great. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 100

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The overpowering great variegated whole must be divided into small portions, and pressed together like a plaything, if it is to be understood and described.

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**Who acts:** great · **What happens:** overpower, variegate, divide, press, understand, describe · **To what, where:** small portions, plaything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great), 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:pg27200:24:100
# text = The overpowering great variegated whole must be divided into small portions, and pressed together like a plaything, if it is to be understood and described.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	overpowering	overpower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	variegated	variegate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plaything	plaything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overpower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **variegate** | past | great |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | must · passive |  |  |  | small portions |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **press** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a plaything; together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **understand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | plaything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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