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title: "I have never seen greater beauties, even in the royal stables," exc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have never seen greater beauties, even in the royal stables," exclaimed the beetle, who was now resting himself. Who acts: beetle. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 83

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"I have never seen greater beauties, even in the royal stables," exclaimed the beetle, who was now resting himself.

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**Who acts:** beetle · **What happens:** not see, exclaim, rest · **To what, where:** greater beauties, beetle · **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 (beetle), 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:pg27200:8:83
# text = "I have never seen greater beauties, even in the royal stables," exclaimed the beetle, who was now resting himself.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the beetle *= beetle* | greater beauties and the royal stables |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the beetle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | past · progressive | the beetle | beetle |  |  | now |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=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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