--- title: In a large party it is very disagreeable to find a button giving way… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In a large party it is very disagreeable to find a button giving way, with no studs at hand to fall back upon; but it is worse still in a large company to be conscious that your wife and mother-in-law are talking nonsense, and that you cannot depend upon yourself to produce a little ready wit to car --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/) / 95 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 95 In a large party it is very disagreeable to find a button giving way, with no studs at hand to fall back upon; but it is worse still in a large company to be conscious that your wife and mother-in-law are talking nonsense, and that you cannot depend upon yourself to produce a little ready wit to carry off the stupidity of the whole affair. **Who acts:** it, button, casket, wife, you · **What happens:** be, find, give, fall back, talk, not depend · **To what, where:** large party, button, way, large company, nonsense, little ready wit 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 (it, button, casket, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:7:95 # text = In a large party it is very disagreeable to find a button giving way, with no studs at hand to fall back upon; but it is worse still in a large company to be conscious that your wife and mother-in-law are talking nonsense, and that you cannot depend upon yourself to produce a little ready wit to carry off the stupidity of the whole affair. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 disagreeable disagreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 csubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 studs stud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 30 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 conscious conscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 49 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 52 that that SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 55 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 56 depend depend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 57 upon upon ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 56 obl _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 advcl _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 62 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 63 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ _ 65 to to PART TO _ 66 mark _ _ 66 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 acl _ _ 67 off off ADP RP _ 66 compound:prt _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 stupidity stupidity NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 72 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 amod _ _ 73 affair affair NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | a large party | | disagreeable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | | a button | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Topic | | 3 | **give** | gerund | a button *not said here* | way | | | | with no studs at hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **fall back** | to-infinitive | a button *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | casket | | | a large company | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | conscious *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **talk** | present · progressive | your wife and mother and law | nonsense | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | | 8 | **not** **depend** | can | you | | | | | upon yourself | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **produce** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a little ready wit | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Result | | 10 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the stupidity of the whole affair | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stupidity=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/96/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)