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title: Mamma-in-law acknowledged that Sophy was not only a clever housewife… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mamma-in-law acknowledged that Sophy was not only a clever housewife, but well-informed and accomplished, though that could hardly be expected in a person of her limited means. Who acts: Mamma, Sophy, limited. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 113

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Mamma-in-law acknowledged that Sophy was not only a clever housewife, but well-informed and accomplished, though that could hardly be expected in a person of her limited means.

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**Who acts:** Mamma, Sophy, limited · **What happens:** acknowledge, not be, inform, accomplish, expect, mean · **To what, where:** clever housewife, that

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mamma, Sophy, limited), 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:pg27200:7:113
# text = Mamma-in-law acknowledged that Sophy was not only a clever housewife, but well-informed and accomplished, though that could hardly be expected in a person of her limited means.
1	Mamma	Mamma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	housewife	housewife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	_
35	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | past | Mamma |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | Sophy | a clever housewife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accomplish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **expect** | could · passive |  | that |  |  |  | in a person; hardly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | present | limited |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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