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title: He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly hungry children to torment him. Who acts: lieutenant. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 37

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He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly hungry children to torment him.

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**Who acts:** lieutenant · **What happens:** have, torment · **To what, where:** infirm mother, lieutenant

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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 (lieutenant), 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:pg1597:6:37
# text = He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly hungry children to torment him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc:preconj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	infirm	infirm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	everlastingly	everlastingly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	torment	torment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | lieutenant | a infirm mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
| 2 | **torment** | to-infinitive | lieutenant *not said here* | lieutenant |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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