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title: But that does not disturb us, we quietly go on in our own way among… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But that does not disturb us, we quietly go on in our own way among the rest, whose ideas are certainly not ours; for we look at the bright side of things, and only speak what is good, although that is sometimes very difficult to find where none exists. Who acts: that, we, ideas, none. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 51

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But that does not disturb us, we quietly go on in our own way among the rest, whose ideas are certainly not ours; for we look at the bright side of things, and only speak what is good, although that is sometimes very difficult to find where none exists.

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**Who acts:** that, we, ideas, none · **What happens:** not disturb, go on, not be, look, speak, be · **To what, where:** us, own way, ours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, we, ideas, none), 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:pg27200:145:51
# text = But that does not disturb us, we quietly go on in our own way among the rest, whose ideas are certainly not ours; for we look at the bright side of things, and only speak what is good, although that is sometimes very difficult to find where none exists.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
40	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	advmod	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	csubj	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
53	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	54	nsubj	_	_
54	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **disturb** | present · do-support | that | us |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go on** | present | we |  |  | our own way |  | among the rest; quietly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | ideas | ours |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present | we |  |  |  |  | at the bright side of things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | difficult, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **exist** | present | none |  |  |  |  |  | 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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