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title: Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefore wish him joy of the excursion with all our heart; and it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads so sedentary a life. Who acts: Nobody, we, joy, person. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Sh
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 17

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Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefore wish him joy of the excursion with all our heart; and it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads so sedentary a life.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, we, joy, person · **What happens:** be, wish, lead, joy · **To what, where:** joy, Tis, life, excursion

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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: who acts (Nobody, we, joy, person), 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:pg1597:8:17
# text = Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefore wish him joy of the excursion with all our heart; and it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads so sedentary a life.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	excursion	excursion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	beneficial	beneficial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	sedentary	sedentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | Nobody |  |  |  |  | steady *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than this young man | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | present | we | joy of the excursion with our heart | Tis |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | future | joy |  |  |  |  | for a person; beneficial, certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | present | a person | a life |  |  |  | sedentary *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 6 | **joy** |  |  | the excursion with our heart |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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