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title: "It's moving-day to day," he said; "streets and houses are like a du… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It's moving-day to day," he said; "streets and houses are like a dust-bin--a large dust-bin; but I'm content with a cartload. Who acts: bit, Ole, streets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 6

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"It's moving-day to day," he said; "streets and houses are like a dust-bin--a large dust-bin; but I'm content with a cartload.

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**Who acts:** bit, Ole, streets · **What happens:** move, say, be · **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 (bit, Ole, 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:pg27200:138:6
# text = "It's moving-day to day," he said; "streets and houses are like a dust-bin--a large dust-bin; but I'm content with a cartload.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cartload	cartload	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** *in a quote* | present · progressive | bit |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ole |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | streets and houses |  |  |  |  | like a dust bin | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ole |  |  |  |  | with a cartload; content *property* | 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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