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title: He is better off than I am; he has large rooms, and wears a beautifu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He is better off than I am; he has large rooms, and wears a beautiful black velvet coat. Who acts: neighbor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 72

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He is better off than I am; he has large rooms, and wears a beautiful black velvet coat.

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**Who acts:** neighbor · **What happens:** be, have, wear · **To what, where:** large rooms, beautiful black velvet coat

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor), 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:pg27200:79:72
# text = He is better off than I am; he has large rooms, and wears a beautiful black velvet coat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | neighbor |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | neighbor | large rooms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 3 | **wear** | present | neighbor *not said here* | a beautiful black velvet coat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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