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title: Neither he nor his friends noticed in what a monotonous, uniform way… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither he nor his friends noticed in what a monotonous, uniform way one day followed another, for there was always plenty to do and see. Who acts: Jurgen, one day, plenty. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 32

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Neither he nor his friends noticed in what a monotonous, uniform way one day followed another, for there was always plenty to do and see.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, one day, plenty · **What happens:** notice, follow, be, do, see · **To what, where:** monotonous uniform way, another

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, one day, plenty), 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:pg27200:159:32
# text = Neither he nor his friends noticed in what a monotonous, uniform way one day followed another, for there was always plenty to do and see.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc:preconj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	uniform	uniform	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Jurgen |  |  | what monotonous uniform way |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **follow** | past | one day | another |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | plenty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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