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title: And here is a nettle: what may its leaves tell us? — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And here is a nettle: what may its leaves tell us? Who acts: nettle, leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 26

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And here is a nettle: what may its leaves tell us?

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**Who acts:** nettle, leaves · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** nettle, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nettle, leaves), 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:pg27200:29:26
# text = And here is a nettle: what may its leaves tell us?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a nettle |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | nettle's leaves | a nettle | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic |

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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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