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title: I could make up a new "Thousand and One Nights," in my own way, out… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I could make up a new "Thousand and One Nights," in my own way, out of these pictures, but the number might be too great, after all. Who acts: I, number. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 18

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I could make up a new "Thousand and One Nights," in my own way, out of these pictures, but the number might be too great, after all.

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**Who acts:** I, number · **What happens:** make up, be · **To what, where:** own way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, number), 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:pg27200:91:18
# text = I could make up a new "Thousand and One Nights," in my own way, out of these pictures, but the number might be too great, after all.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | could | I |  |  | my own way |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | might | the number |  |  |  |  | great *property* | 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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