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title: But we must not suppose it was all over; no, indeed, there was worse… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But we must not suppose it was all over; no, indeed, there was worse to come yet. Who acts: we, head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 28

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But we must not suppose it was all over; no, indeed, there was worse to come yet.

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**Who acts:** we, head · **What happens:** not suppose, be, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, head), 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:pg27200:43:28
# text = But we must not suppose it was all over; no, indeed, there was worse to come yet.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suppose** | must | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | all, over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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