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title: Tis a bitter crust, alas! at which I am condemned to gnaw!” — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis a bitter crust, alas! at which I am condemned to gnaw!” A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 16

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Tis a bitter crust, alas! at which I am condemned to gnaw!”

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**What happens:** condemn, gnaw · **To what, where:** I, bitter crust

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:8:16
# text = Tis a bitter crust, alas! at which I am condemned to gnaw!”
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | present · passive |  | I |  | a bitter crust and alas |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gnaw** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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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