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title: She ought to take all the rubbish off, and go as we do; then she wou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She ought to take all the rubbish off, and go as we do; then she would look something like a respectable barbel, so far as it is possible for a person to look like one!" Who acts: Barbel, we, rubbish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 110

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She ought to take all the rubbish off, and go as we do; then she would look something like a respectable barbel, so far as it is possible for a person to look like one!"

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**Who acts:** Barbel, we, rubbish · **What happens:** take off, go, do, look, be · **To what, where:** rubbish, something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbel, we, rubbish), 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:pg27200:26:110
# text = She ought to take all the rubbish off, and go as we do; then she would look something like a respectable barbel, so far as it is possible for a person to look like one!"
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	barbel	barbel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | ought | Barbel | all rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Barbel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | would | Barbel | something |  |  | then | like a respectable barbel; for a person; far *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | present | rubbish |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | Barbel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like one | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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