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title: What a wonderful quantity of plants," cried the beetle; "how good th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What a wonderful quantity of plants," cried the beetle; "how good they will taste when they are decayed! Who acts: wonderful quantity, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 110

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What a wonderful quantity of plants," cried the beetle; "how good they will taste when they are decayed!

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**Who acts:** wonderful quantity, flowers · **What happens:** cry, taste, decay · **To what, where:** beetle, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful quantity, flowers), 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:pg27200:8:110
# text = What a wonderful quantity of plants," cried the beetle; "how good they will taste when they are decayed!
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	decayed	decay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | what wonderful quantity of plants | the beetle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | future | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **decay** | present · passive |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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