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title: All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that it was impossible for stork-papa to follow it, much less to talk about it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 91

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All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that it was impossible for stork-papa to follow it, much less to talk about it.

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**What happens:** explain, be, follow, talk · **To what, where:** things, Love

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:84:91
# text = All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that it was impossible for stork-papa to follow it, much less to talk about it.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	elaborately	elaborately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	learnedly	learnedly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | all things |  |  |  | elaborately, learnedly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for stork papa; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | Love |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about Love; less *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

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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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