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title: "Are we to sit here forever?" asked one; "shall we not become hard b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Are we to sit here forever?" asked one; "shall we not become hard by sitting so long? Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 4

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"Are we to sit here forever?" asked one; "shall we not become hard by sitting so long?

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** be, ask, not become, sit · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg27200:141:4
# text = "Are we to sit here forever?" asked one; "shall we not become hard by sitting so long?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we |  |  | here |  | forever, sit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **become** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:** «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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