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title: To sit at one's ease and poetise--that is a pleasure; everybody has… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To sit at one's ease and poetise--that is a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master. Who acts: that, everybody, something, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 24

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To sit at one's ease and poetise--that is a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master.

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**Who acts:** that, everybody, something, you · **What happens:** sit, poetise, be, have, say · **To what, where:** ease, pleasure, something, you, own master · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, everybody, something, you), 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:pg1597:8:24
# text = To sit at one's ease and poetise--that is a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	poetise	poetise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | one's ease |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location |
| 2 | **poetise** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | a pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | everybody | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | you | your own master |  |  |  | always *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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