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title: It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine. Who acts: shadow, everything, man, new shadow. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 57

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It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine.

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**Who acts:** shadow, everything, man, new shadow, eight days · **What happens:** be, grow, observe, come, lapse, joy · **To what, where:** warm lands, great joy, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shadow, everything, man, new shadow), 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:pg1597:23:57
# text = It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vexatious	vexatious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lapse	lapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | shadow |  |  |  |  | vexatious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | everything |  |  | the warm lands |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 3 | **observe** | past | man |  | man's great joy |  | after the lapse of eight days |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to joy=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | past | a new shadow |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 5 | **lapse** |  | eight days |  |  |  |  |  | nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **joy** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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