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title: “It is really unpardonable that there are no lamps here; and it is a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is really unpardonable that there are no lamps here; and it is as dirty as if one had to wade through a morass.” Who acts: honor, lamps, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 62

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“It is really unpardonable that there are no lamps here; and it is as dirty as if one had to wade through a morass.”

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**Who acts:** honor, lamps, one · **What happens:** be, have, wade · **To what, where:** morass

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor, lamps, 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:pg1597:5:62
# text = “It is really unpardonable that there are no lamps here; and it is as dirty as if one had to wade through a morass.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unpardonable	unpardonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wade	wade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	morass	morass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | honor |  |  |  |  | unpardonable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | no lamps |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | honor |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wade** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  | a morass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through morass=Trajectory |

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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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