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title: The anxiety I feel about them prevents me enjoying Switzerland. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The anxiety I feel about them prevents me enjoying Switzerland. Who acts: I, anxiety. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 76

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The anxiety I feel about them prevents me enjoying Switzerland.

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**Who acts:** I, anxiety · **What happens:** feel, prevent, enjoy · **To what, where:** anxiety, me, Switzerland

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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 (I, anxiety), 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:pg1597:9:76
# text = The anxiety I feel about them prevents me enjoying Switzerland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | I | the anxiety *not said here* |  |  |  | about Alps *= alp* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme about they=Location |
| 2 | **prevent** | present | the anxiety | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enjoy** | gerund | the anxiety *not said here* | Switzerland |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer switzerland=Stimulus |

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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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