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title: And sure enough the most beautiful stories and poetry were written u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And sure enough the most beautiful stories and poetry were written upon it, and only once was there a blot, which was very fortunate. Who acts: blot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 45

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And sure enough the most beautiful stories and poetry were written upon it, and only once was there a blot, which was very fortunate.

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**Who acts:** blot · **What happens:** write, be · **To what, where:** beautiful stories, there

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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 (blot), 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:pg27200:34:45
# text = And sure enough the most beautiful stories and poetry were written upon it, and only once was there a blot, which was very fortunate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blot	blot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  | the beautiful stories and poetry |  |  |  | upon poetry | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | there |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | a blot |  |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | tree rules |

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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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