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title: And from that time he felt at rest in himself, and not more so than… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And from that time he felt at rest in himself, and not more so than such an honorable old lamp really deserved to be. Who acts: heap. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 121

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And from that time he felt at rest in himself, and not more so than such an honorable old lamp really deserved to be.

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**Who acts:** heap · **What happens:** feel, deserve, be · **To what, where:** rest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heap), 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:pg27200:133:121
# text = And from that time he felt at rest in himself, and not more so than such an honorable old lamp really deserved to be.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | heap |  |  | rest | time | in heap | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in himself=Attribute |
| 2 | **deserve** | past | heap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than such honorable old lamp | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | to-infinitive | heap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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