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title: But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life! Who acts: one. 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 50

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But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, not accustom · **To what, where:** family circle, oneself

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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 (one), 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:pg1597:19:50
# text = But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	accustom	accustom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | one |  |  | a family circle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **accustom** | can | one | oneself |  |  |  | to this life | 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:** «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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