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title: A more fantastical imagination than Herschel's must have discovered… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A more fantastical imagination than Herschel's must have discovered these. Who acts: Herschel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 66

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A more fantastical imagination than Herschel's must have discovered these.

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**Who acts:** Herschel · **What happens:** discover, imagine · **To what, where:** fantastical imagination

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herschel), 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:pg27200:42:66
# text = A more fantastical imagination than Herschel's must have discovered these.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	fantastical	fantastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Herschel	Herschel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | must · perfect · passive |  | Herschel's fantastical imagination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** |  | Herschel |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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