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title: "Esteem no man happy until he is in his grave," were the words of So… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Esteem no man happy until he is in his grave," were the words of Solon. Who acts: spirit, Esteem. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 58

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"Esteem no man happy until he is in his grave," were the words of Solon.

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**Who acts:** spirit, Esteem · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** man, grave, words

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, Esteem), 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:pg27200:45:58
# text = "Esteem no man happy until he is in his grave," were the words of Solon.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Solon	Solon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | spirit | no man *not said here* |  | spirit's grave |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Esteem | the words |  |  |  | of Solon | 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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