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title: The most difficult part of the body to get through was the head; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The most difficult part of the body to get through was the head; and in this case, as it often happens in the world, the small heads were the most fortunate. Who acts: it, small heads. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 3

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The most difficult part of the body to get through was the head; and in this case, as it often happens in the world, the small heads were the most fortunate.

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**Who acts:** it, small heads · **What happens:** get through, be, happen · **To what, where:** head, world

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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 (it, small heads), 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:pg27200:43:3
# text = The most difficult part of the body to get through was the head; and in this case, as it often happens in the world, the small heads were the most fortunate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
10	through	through	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get through** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the head |  |  |  | through *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | present | it |  |  | the world |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the small heads |  |  |  |  | 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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