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title: “Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old clothespress, ugh!” Who acts: chairs. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 31

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“Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old clothespress, ugh!”

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**Who acts:** chairs · **What happens:** creak, get · **To what, where:** gout

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chairs), 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:pg1597:19:31
# text = “Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old clothespress, ugh!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	creak	creak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gout	gout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clothespress	clothespress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
21	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** *in a quote* | present | chairs *= chair* |  |  |  | now |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | chairs *= chair* | the gout |  |  |  | like the old clothespress; certainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gout=Stimulus |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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