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title: Every evening he goes to a party, where his nice supper costs him no… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every evening he goes to a party, where his nice supper costs him nothing: would to Heaven I could but change with him! Who acts: lieutenant, nice supper, I. 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 c
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 38

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Every evening he goes to a party, where his nice supper costs him nothing: would to Heaven I could but change with him!

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**Who acts:** lieutenant, nice supper, I · **What happens:** go, cost, change · **To what, where:** party, nothing, 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, nice supper, 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:pg1597:6:38
# text = Every evening he goes to a party, where his nice supper costs him nothing: would to Heaven I could but change with him!
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | lieutenant |  |  | a party | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cost** | present | lieutenant's nice supper | nothing | lieutenant |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary nothing=Value |
| 3 | **change** | could | I |  |  |  |  | with lieutenant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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