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title: "No, not everything," said a voice near him--the voice of the good a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, not everything," said a voice near him--the voice of the good angel of the child; "one fairy has not yet brought her gift, but she will, even if years should elapse, she will bring her gift; it is the last pearl that is wanting." Who acts: everything, one fairy, years, fairy. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 9

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"No, not everything," said a voice near him--the voice of the good angel of the child; "one fairy has not yet brought her gift, but she will, even if years should elapse, she will bring her gift; it is the last pearl that is wanting."

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**Who acts:** everything, one fairy, years, fairy, voice, that · **What happens:** say, have, not bring, elapse, bring, be · **To what, where:** voice, gift, last pearl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, one fairy, years, fairy), 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:pg27200:70:9
# text = "No, not everything," said a voice near him--the voice of the good angel of the child; "one fairy has not yet brought her gift, but she will, even if years should elapse, she will bring her gift; it is the last pearl that is wanting."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	elapse	elapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
56	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | everything | a voice |  |  |  | near man; the voice of the good angel of the child *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | one fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | past | one fairy *not said here* | fairy's gift |  |  | yet |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **elapse** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | years |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | fairy | fairy's gift |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | voice | the last pearl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **want** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **gift** *in a quote* |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **gift** *in a quote* |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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