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title: Alas!” sighed he, “I know one in which all is stately; but there sit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas!” sighed he, “I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop. Who acts: I, spruce young shopman, only thing. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with it
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 62

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Alas!” sighed he, “I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.

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**Who acts:** I, spruce young shopman, only thing · **What happens:** sigh, know, be, sit · **To what, where:** beginning, one, spruce young shopman, only thing, whole shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, spruce young shopman, only thing), 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:pg1597:7:62
# text = Alas!” sighed he, “I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
15	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shopman	shopman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	amiss	amiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** *in a quote* | past |  | beginning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stately *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | present |  | a spruce young shopman |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a spruce young shopman | the only thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | the only thing |  |  | the whole shop |  | amiss *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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