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title: His dwelling was cold and comfortless; and how long would he be obli… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His dwelling was cold and comfortless; and how long would he be obliged to bear all this? Who acts: dwelling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 42

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His dwelling was cold and comfortless; and how long would he be obliged to bear all this?

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**Who acts:** dwelling · **What happens:** be, oblige, bear · **To what, where:** Jurgen, this

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwelling), 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:pg27200:161:42
# text = His dwelling was cold and comfortless; and how long would he be obliged to bear all this?
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	comfortless	comfortless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen's dwelling |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Jurgen's dwelling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **oblige** | would · passive |  | Jurgen |  |  |  | long *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |

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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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