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title: How charming this is for a mother, is it not Mr. Beetle?" for she kn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How charming this is for a mother, is it not Mr. Beetle?" for she knew the stranger by his horny coat. Who acts: this, life, mother. 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 every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 66

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How charming this is for a mother, is it not Mr. Beetle?" for she knew the stranger by his horny coat.

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**Who acts:** this, life, mother · **What happens:** charm, be, not be, know · **To what, where:** charming Beetle, stranger

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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 (this, life, mother), 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:pg27200:8:66
# text = How charming this is for a mother, is it not Mr. Beetle?" for she knew the stranger by his horny coat.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	horny	horny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a mother | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | life | charming Beetle |  |  |  | Mr. *nmod:desc* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | past | mother | the stranger |  |  |  | by son's horny coat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |

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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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