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title: “Excellenza, miserabili!” sighed they, thrusting forth their deforme… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Excellenza, miserabili!” sighed they, thrusting forth their deformed limbs to view. Who acts: Excellenza. 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 91

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“Excellenza, miserabili!” sighed they, thrusting forth their deformed limbs to view.

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**Who acts:** Excellenza · **What happens:** sigh, thrust, deform, view · **To what, where:** arms, deformed limbs

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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 (Excellenza), 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:pg1597:9:91
# text = “Excellenza, miserabili!” sighed they, thrusting forth their deformed limbs to view.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Excellenza	Excellenza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	miserabili	miserabili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	deformed	deform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | Excellenza and miserabili | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **thrust** | gerund | Excellenza and miserabili *not said here* | arms's deformed limbs |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme |
| 3 | **deform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **view** | to-infinitive | Excellenza and miserabili *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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