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title: The truthfulness and life in this picture interested every one. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The truthfulness and life in this picture interested every one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 186

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The truthfulness and life in this picture interested every one.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. 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:pg27200:89:186
# text = The truthfulness and life in this picture interested every one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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