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title: The difference is this, the poet's intellectual memory is better; he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference is this, the poet's intellectual memory is better; he seizes upon an idea or a sentiment, until he can embody it, clearly and plainly in words, which the others cannot do. Who acts: difference, grass, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 33

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The difference is this, the poet's intellectual memory is better; he seizes upon an idea or a sentiment, until he can embody it, clearly and plainly in words, which the others cannot do.

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**Who acts:** difference, grass, others · **What happens:** be, seize, embody, not do · **To what, where:** memory, words

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference, grass, others), 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:pg27200:44:33
# text = The difference is this, the poet's intellectual memory is better; he seizes upon an idea or a sentiment, until he can embody it, clearly and plainly in words, which the others cannot do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seizes	seize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	embody	embody	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the difference |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | present | grass |  |  |  |  | upon a idea or a sentiment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **embody** | can | grass | memory |  | words |  | clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | can | the others | words |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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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