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title: The streets were rather irregular, it is true, but still this added… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The streets were rather irregular, it is true, but still this added to their picturesque appearance. Who acts: streets, course. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 112

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The streets were rather irregular, it is true, but still this added to their picturesque appearance.

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**Who acts:** streets, course · **What happens:** be, add · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets, course), 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:pg27200:55:112
# text = The streets were rather irregular, it is true, but still this added to their picturesque appearance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the streets |  |  |  |  | irregular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | course |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | this |  |  | still | to streets's picturesque appearance | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to appearance=Co-Patient |

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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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