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title: He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised fro… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality--our own time--which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been. Who acts: glass. A sentence of «Andersen's
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 24

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He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality--our own time--which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.

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**Who acts:** glass · **What happens:** think, endure, praise, be, incline · **To what, where:** distress, happy reality, bottom

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass), 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:pg1597:6:24
# text = He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality--our own time--which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	deficiencies	deficiency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	parataxis	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
47	against	against	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | glass |  |  |  |  | of the distress and agony | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **endure** | past · perfect | glass | the distress and agony *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distress=Circumstance |
| 3 | **praise** | participle | glass *not said here* | the happy reality |  | the bottom of glass's heart | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reality=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than that; good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **incline** |  | glass |  |  |  |  |  | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: 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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