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title: Some few said nothing, others expressed too much, and the apple-bran… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some few said nothing, others expressed too much, and the apple-branch very soon got to understand that there was as much difference in the characters of human beings as in those of plants and flowers. Who acts: few, others, apple branch, much difference. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 13

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Some few said nothing, others expressed too much, and the apple-branch very soon got to understand that there was as much difference in the characters of human beings as in those of plants and flowers.

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**Who acts:** few, others, apple branch, much difference · **What happens:** say, express, get, understand, be · **To what, where:** nothing, much, characters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, others, apple branch, much difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:310`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:6:13
# text = Some few said nothing, others expressed too much, and the apple-branch very soon got to understand that there was as much difference in the characters of human beings as in those of plants and flowers.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some few | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **express** | past | others | much |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | the apple branch |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **understand** | to-infinitive | the apple branch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | much difference |  |  | the characters of human beings; there |  | as those | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in character=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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