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title: Am I not just as good as that great creature yonder, who is waited u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Am I not just as good as that great creature yonder, who is waited upon and brushed, and has food and drink placed before him? Who acts: I. 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 14

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Am I not just as good as that great creature yonder, who is waited upon and brushed, and has food and drink placed before him?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not be, wait, brush, have, place · **To what, where:** great creature, food

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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 (I), 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:pg27200:8:14
# text = Am I not just as good as that great creature yonder, who is waited upon and brushed, and has food and drink placed before him?
1	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	brushed	brush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as that great creature; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present · passive |  | that great creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **brush** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | food and drink |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 5 | **place** | participle |  | food and drink *not said here* |  |  | before shoe |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |

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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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