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title: On this occasion I chose the general "moving-day" for my visit to Ol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On this occasion I chose the general "moving-day" for my visit to Ole, for on that day it is anything but agreeable down in the streets in the town; for they are full of sweepings, shreds, and remnants of all sorts, to say nothing of the cast-off rubbish in which one has to wade about. Who acts: I, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 1

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On this occasion I chose the general "moving-day" for my visit to Ole, for on that day it is anything but agreeable down in the streets in the town; for they are full of sweepings, shreds, and remnants of all sorts, to say nothing of the cast-off rubbish in which one has to wade about.

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**Who acts:** I, remnants, visit, streets, one, my · **What happens:** choose, move, be, say, have, wade · **To what, where:** general, occasion, anything, streets, nothing, off rubbish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, remnants, visit, streets), 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:pg27200:138:1
# text = On this occasion I chose the general "moving-day" for my visit to Ole, for on that day it is anything but agreeable down in the streets in the town; for they are full of sweepings, shreds, and remnants of all sorts, to say nothing of the cast-off rubbish in which one has to wade about.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	shreds	shred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	remnants	remnant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
56	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	obl	_	_
62	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
63	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	acl:relcl	_	_
64	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
65	wade	wade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	xcomp	_	_
66	about	about	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | I | the general |  | this occasion |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Theme |
| 2 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | remnants of all sorts *= remnant* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | for my visit to Ole | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | visit | anything |  | the streets in the town | day | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  | of sweepings and shreds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | remnants of all sorts | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 7 | **have** | present | one |  |  | the off rubbish |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **wade** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **visit** |  | my |  |  |  |  | to Ole | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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