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title: It was no use, he might make himself great and tall, or remain a lit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was no use, he might make himself great and tall, or remain a little wax doll with a large black hat; still he must dance. Who acts: rod, lawyer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 100

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It was no use, he might make himself great and tall, or remain a little wax doll with a large black hat; still he must dance.

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**Who acts:** rod, lawyer · **What happens:** be, make, remain, dance · **To what, where:** use, lawyer, little wax doll

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rod, lawyer), 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:pg27200:73:100
# text = It was no use, he might make himself great and tall, or remain a little wax doll with a large black hat; still he must dance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | rod | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | might | lawyer | lawyer |  |  |  | great *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |
| 3 | **remain** | present | lawyer *not said here* | a little wax doll with a large black hat |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | must | lawyer |  |  |  | still |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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