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title: "Yes, that is your misfortune," said the fence-rail; "you are so fic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, that is your misfortune," said the fence-rail; "you are so fickle, so unsettled; you must always be travelling about into foreign lands when the cold commences here. Who acts: that, misfortune, you, cold. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 10

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"Yes, that is your misfortune," said the fence-rail; "you are so fickle, so unsettled; you must always be travelling about into foreign lands when the cold commences here.

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**Who acts:** that, misfortune, you, cold · **What happens:** be, say, travel, commence · **To what, where:** misfortune, fence rail, foreign lands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, misfortune, you, cold), 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:pg27200:153:10
# text = "Yes, that is your misfortune," said the fence-rail; "you are so fickle, so unsettled; you must always be travelling about into foreign lands when the cold commences here.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	unsettled	unsettled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	commences	commence	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | your misfortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | your misfortune | the fence rail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | fickle *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **travel** *in a quote* | must · progressive | you |  |  | foreign lands |  | about, always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into land=Destination |
| 6 | **commence** *in a quote* | present | the cold |  |  | here |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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