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title: They were both of opinion that the story contained many points like… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both of opinion that the story contained many points like their own, and these similarities they liked best. Who acts: flowers, story. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 115

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They were both of opinion that the story contained many points like their own, and these similarities they liked best.

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**Who acts:** flowers, story · **What happens:** be, contain, like · **To what, where:** many points, similarities

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, story), 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:pg27200:72:115
# text = They were both of opinion that the story contained many points like their own, and these similarities they liked best.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	similarities	similarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | of both opinion and this similarities | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | past | the story | many points |  |  |  | like flowers's own | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot point=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | past | flowers *= flower* | this similarities *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot similarity=Theme |

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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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