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title: Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff posse… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were. Who acts: Everybody, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 16

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Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, all · **What happens:** know, possess, be, see · **To what, where:** remarkable quality, stuff, bad

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, all), 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:pg27200:32:16
# text = Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Everybody | what remarkable quality |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer quality=Stimulus |
| 2 | **possess** | participle |  | the stuff *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | bad |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=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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