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title: He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment. Who acts: magazine, outward chance circumstances. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 71

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He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment.

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**Who acts:** magazine, outward chance circumstances · **What happens:** endeavor, be, dispel, cause, imbibe, bosom · **To what, where:** gloom, milk, bosom, nature

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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, outward chance circumstances), 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:pg1597:9:71
# text = He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dispel	dispel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	imbibe	imbibe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
35	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endeavor** | past | magazine |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | magazine |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dispel** | to-infinitive | magazine *not said here* | magazine's gloom |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gloom=Patient |
| 4 | **cause** | past · passive | outward chance circumstances | magazine's gloom |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 5 | **imbibe** | present | magazine *not said here* | the milk of purest human enjoyment |  | the bosom of nature |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 6 | **bosom** |  |  | nature |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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