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title: The church itself is very beautiful, even more beautiful than the ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The church itself is very beautiful, even more beautiful than the marble cathedral at Florence, though not so large. Who acts: church. 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 52

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The church itself is very beautiful, even more beautiful than the marble cathedral at Florence, though not so large.

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**Who acts:** church · **What happens:** be, not be

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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: who acts (church), 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:pg27200:89:52
# text = The church itself is very beautiful, even more beautiful than the marble cathedral at Florence, though not so large.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the church  church |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the church  church *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the marble cathedral at Florence | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | the church  church *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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