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title: This certainly was not pleasant; but at last it was made into twelve… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This certainly was not pleasant; but at last it was made into twelve garments of that kind which people do not like to name, and yet everybody should wear one. " Who acts: This, people, everybody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 33

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This certainly was not pleasant; but at last it was made into twelve garments of that kind which people do not like to name, and yet everybody should wear one. "

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**Who acts:** This, people, everybody · **What happens:** not be, make, not like, name, wear · **To what, where:** last, twelve garments, kind, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, everybody), 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:pg27200:34:33
# text = This certainly was not pleasant; but at last it was made into twelve garments of that kind which people do not like to name, and yet everybody should wear one. "
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | certainly, pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | last |  | twelve garments of that kind |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into garment=Product |
| 3 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | people | that kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wear** | should | everybody | one |  |  | yet |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source |

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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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