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title: Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the beautiful, and the true, was of as much value to most people as a nutmeg would be to a cow. Who acts: Sorrow, man, nutmeg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 161

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Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the beautiful, and the true, was of as much value to most people as a nutmeg would be to a cow.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, man, nutmeg · **What happens:** pursue, say, be · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, man, nutmeg), 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:pg27200:165:161
# text = Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the beautiful, and the true, was of as much value to most people as a nutmeg would be to a cow.
1	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | Sorrow and trouble | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | about the good | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of much value; to most people | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | would | a nutmeg |  |  |  |  | to a cow | 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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