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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 61

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Then at last would the agonizing restlessness be allayed, which destroys my existence!

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** allay, destroy, exist · **To what, where:** agonizing restlessness, last, existence

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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:pg1597:9:61
# text = Then at last would the agonizing restlessness be allayed, which destroys my existence!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	agonizing	agonizing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	restlessness	restlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	allayed	allay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allay** | would · passive |  | the agonizing restlessness |  | last | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | present |  | my existence |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Patient |
| 3 | **exist** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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