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title: Some are all for pomp and parade, others have a great deal to do to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some are all for pomp and parade, others have a great deal to do to maintain their own importance, while the rest might be spared without much loss to society. Who acts: Some, others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 14

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Some are all for pomp and parade, others have a great deal to do to maintain their own importance, while the rest might be spared without much loss to society.

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**Who acts:** Some, others · **What happens:** be, have, do, maintain, spare · **To what, where:** great deal, own importance, rest

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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 (Some, 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:pg27200:6:14
# text = Some are all for pomp and parade, others have a great deal to do to maintain their own importance, while the rest might be spared without much loss to society.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Some |  |  |  |  | for pomp and parade; all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | others | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | a great deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | others's own importance |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent importance=Theme |
| 5 | **spare** | might · passive |  | the rest |  |  |  | without much loss to society | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |

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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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