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title: After all, it was of very little consequence; for Kaela's mamma had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After all, it was of very little consequence; for Kaela's mamma had the best of all possessions; namely, Kaela herself. Who acts: shock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 64

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After all, it was of very little consequence; for Kaela's mamma had the best of all possessions; namely, Kaela herself.

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**Who acts:** shock · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** best

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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 (shock), 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:pg27200:7:64
# text = After all, it was of very little consequence; for Kaela's mamma had the best of all possessions; namely, Kaela herself.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | shock |  |  |  | after all | of little consequence | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | shock *not said here* | the best |  |  |  | for Kaela's mamma | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient |
| 3 | **be** |  | shock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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