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title: Nobody got anything by it; indeed, no one even heard what the good t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody got anything by it; indeed, no one even heard what the good thing was. Who acts: Nobody, one, good thing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 41

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Nobody got anything by it; indeed, no one even heard what the good thing was.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, one, good thing · **What happens:** get, hear, be · **To what, where:** anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, one, good thing), 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:pg27200:16:41
# text = Nobody got anything by it; indeed, no one even heard what the good thing was.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Nobody | anything |  |  |  | by idea | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the good thing |  |  |  |  |  | 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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