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title: We don't put on scales, and we make ourselves understood in an easie… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We don't put on scales, and we make ourselves understood in an easier way, simply by twitching the corners of our mouths and staring with our eyes. Who acts: We, ourselves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 95

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We don't put on scales, and we make ourselves understood in an easier way, simply by twitching the corners of our mouths and staring with our eyes.

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**Who acts:** We, ourselves · **What happens:** not put, make, understand, twitch, stare · **To what, where:** scales, ourselves, easier way, corners

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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 (We, ourselves), 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:pg27200:26:95
# text = We don't put on scales, and we make ourselves understood in an easier way, simply by twitching the corners of our mouths and staring with our eyes.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	twitching	twitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | present · do-support | We |  |  | scales |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on scale=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present | we | ourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | participle | ourselves *not said here* |  |  | a easier way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **twitch** | gerund | We *not said here* | the corners of our mouths |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient |
| 5 | **stare** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with our eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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