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title: No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end to the other occupied with and judging the most trivial matters.” Who acts: you, friend. 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 c
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 25

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No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end to the other occupied with and judging the most trivial matters.”

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**Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** try, be, judge · **To what, where:** end, trivial matters

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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 (you, friend), 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:pg1597:8:25
# text = No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end to the other occupied with and judging the most trivial matters.”
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	trivial	trivial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | should | you |  |  |  |  | friend *vocative* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | present | friend |  |  |  | from one year's end | to the other occupied; sit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **judge** | gerund | friend *not said here* | the trivial matters |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent matter=Value |

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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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