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title: Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at R… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead. Who acts: Nothing, I. 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 88

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Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, I · **What happens:** see, be

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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 (Nothing, I), 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:pg1597:5:88
# text = Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ringstead	Ringstead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | Nothing |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  | as Ringstead | 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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