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description: He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst that ever the malice of fate had allotted him; he would not for two silver marks again go through what he had endured while moon-stricken; but now, however, it was over. Who acts: life, preceding night, malice. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy T
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 10

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He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst that ever the malice of fate had allotted him; he would not for two silver marks again go through what he had endured while moon-stricken; but now, however, it was over.

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**Who acts:** life, preceding night, malice · **What happens:** assert, precede, be, allot, not go, endure · **To what, where:** malice

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, preceding night, malice), 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:pg1597:7:10
# text = He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst that ever the malice of fate had allotted him; he would not for two silver marks again go through what he had endured while moon-stricken; but now, however, it was over.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asserted	assert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	however	however	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assert** | past | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | the preceding night |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **allot** | past · perfect · passive |  | the malice of fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **go** | present | life *not said here* |  |  |  | again | for two silver marks | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mark=Theme through what=Location |
| 6 | **endure** | past · perfect | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | malice |  |  |  | now | however, over *property* | 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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