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title: Their requirements were not many, they were very sociable, and full… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Their requirements were not many, they were very sociable, and full of affection for their children, so much so that each mother considered her own child the most beautiful and clever of them all. Who acts: requirements, mother, earwigs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 60

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Their requirements were not many, they were very sociable, and full of affection for their children, so much so that each mother considered her own child the most beautiful and clever of them all.

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**Who acts:** requirements, mother, earwigs · **What happens:** not be, be, consider, require · **To what, where:** own child

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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 (requirements, mother, earwigs), 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:pg27200:8:60
# text = Their requirements were not many, they were very sociable, and full of affection for their children, so much so that each mother considered her own child the most beautiful and clever of them all.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	requirements	requirement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sociable	sociable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | earwigs's requirements |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | requirements *= requirement* |  |  |  |  | sociable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | past | each mother | mother's own child |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent child=Attribute |
| 4 | **require** |  | earwigs *= earwig* |  |  |  |  |  | nom requirement «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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