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title: Something better and more beautiful is to come after, or the trees w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Something better and more beautiful is to come after, or the trees would not be so decked out. Who acts: Something. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 43

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Something better and more beautiful is to come after, or the trees would not be so decked out.

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**Who acts:** Something · **What happens:** be, not deck out · **To what, where:** trees

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something), 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:pg27200:33:43
# text = Something better and more beautiful is to come after, or the trees would not be so decked out.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	after	after	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Something |  |  |  |  | after, come *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **deck out** | would · passive | Something *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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