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title: I cannot bear it," said she, "I must get out of the drawer;" but whe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I cannot bear it," said she, "I must get out of the drawer;" but when they reached the floor, and cast their eyes on the table, there was the old Chinaman awake and shaking his whole body, till all at once down he came on the floor, "plump." " Who acts: I, comedy, drawers, old Chinaman. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 37

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I cannot bear it," said she, "I must get out of the drawer;" but when they reached the floor, and cast their eyes on the table, there was the old Chinaman awake and shaking his whole body, till all at once down he came on the floor, "plump." "

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**Who acts:** I, comedy, drawers, old Chinaman, place · **What happens:** not bear, say, get out, reach, cast, be · **To what, where:** play, drawer, floor, eyes, table, whole body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, comedy, drawers, old Chinaman), 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:pg27200:166:37
# text = I cannot bear it," said she, "I must get out of the drawer;" but when they reached the floor, and cast their eyes on the table, there was the old Chinaman awake and shaking his whole body, till all at once down he came on the floor, "plump." "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	conj	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	till	till	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	parataxis	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
52	down	down	ADP	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	plump	plump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | can | I | play |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | comedy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get out** | must | I | the drawer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** *in a quote* | past | drawers *= drawer* | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=Theme |
| 5 | **cast** *in a quote* | infinitive | drawers *= drawer* *not said here* | drawers's eyes |  | the table |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on table=Destination |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the old Chinaman |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **shake** *in a quote* | gerund | the old Chinaman *not said here* | place's whole body |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | past | place |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |

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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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