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title: I cannot bear it any longer," said the tin soldier; "I have wept tea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I cannot bear it any longer," said the tin soldier; "I have wept tears of tin, it is so melancholy here. Who acts: I, old chairs, gout. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 82

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I cannot bear it any longer," said the tin soldier; "I have wept tears of tin, it is so melancholy here.

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**Who acts:** I, old chairs, gout · **What happens:** not bear, say, weep, be · **To what, where:** gout, tin soldier, melancholy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old chairs, gout), 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:pg27200:131:82
# text = I cannot bear it any longer," said the tin soldier; "I have wept tears of tin, it is so melancholy here.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	any	any	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | can | I | gout |  |  |  | wept tears of tin *obl*; long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the old chairs *= chair* *not said here* | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic |
| 3 | **weep** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | gout | melancholy |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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