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title: There is a difference indeed, and so there ought to be, or we should… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a difference indeed, and so there ought to be, or we should all be equals." Who acts: difference, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 18

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There is a difference indeed, and so there ought to be, or we should all be equals."

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**Who acts:** difference, we · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** equals

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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 (difference, 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:pg27200:6:18
# text = There is a difference indeed, and so there ought to be, or we should all be equals."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	equals	equal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a difference |  |  | there |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive | a difference *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | should | we | equals |  |  |  | all *property* | 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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