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title: “It is really dreadful,” groaned he with increasing anxiety; “I cann… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is really dreadful,” groaned he with increasing anxiety; “I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single decent shop from one end to the other! Who acts: mind, dreadful, unintelligible, single decent shop. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortun
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 87

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“It is really dreadful,” groaned he with increasing anxiety; “I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single decent shop from one end to the other!

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**Who acts:** mind, dreadful, unintelligible, single decent shop · **What happens:** be, groan, increase, not recognise · **To what, where:** many, anxiety, East Street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mind, dreadful, unintelligible, single decent shop), 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:pg1597:5:87
# text = “It is really dreadful,” groaned he with increasing anxiety; “I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single decent shop from one end to the other!
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	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | mind |  |  |  |  | dreadful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **groan** | past | dreadful | many |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund | dreadful *not said here* | anxiety |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer anxiety=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **recognise** *in a quote* | can | unintelligible | East Street |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a single decent shop from one end to the other |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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