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title: There has been really more done for us than for any other creature;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There has been really more done for us than for any other creature; it is quite plain that we are the most noble people in the world. Who acts: creature, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 21

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There has been really more done for us than for any other creature; it is quite plain that we are the most noble people in the world.

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**Who acts:** creature, we · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** noble people, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, we), 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:pg27200:48:21
# text = There has been really more done for us than for any other creature; it is quite plain that we are the most noble people in the world.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for us; than any other creature; done *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | creature |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | we | the noble people |  | the world |  |  | 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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