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title: He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking diligence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen. Who acts: magazi
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 66

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He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking diligence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.

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**Who acts:** magazine, head, weary neck · **What happens:** be, pack up, creak, ache, split, bear · **To what, where:** middle, heavy load, feet

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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 (magazine, head, weary neck), 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:pg1597:9:66
# text = He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking diligence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	eternally	eternally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ached	ache	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	torturing	torture	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	amod	_	_
52	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
55	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	swollen	swell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | magazine |  |  | the middle |  | of Switzerland | tree rules |
| 2 | **pack up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with eight other passengers in the inside of a creaking diligence | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **creak** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | eternally *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ache** | past | magazine's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **split** | past | head |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bear** | could | magazine's weary neck | the heavy load |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
| 7 | **pinch** | participle |  | magazine's feet *not said here* |  |  |  | by magazine's torturing boots | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by boot=Theme |
| 8 | **torture** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **swell** | past · passive |  | magazine's feet |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent |

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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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