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title: "As we have done no good," said the chimney-sweep, "we might as well… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "As we have done no good," said the chimney-sweep, "we might as well have remained here, instead of taking so much trouble." Who acts: we, chimney sweep. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 72

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"As we have done no good," said the chimney-sweep, "we might as well have remained here, instead of taking so much trouble."

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**Who acts:** we, chimney sweep · **What happens:** do, say, remain, take · **To what, where:** good, much trouble · **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 (we, chimney sweep), 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:pg27200:166:72
# text = "As we have done no good," said the chimney-sweep, "we might as well have remained here, instead of taking so much trouble."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | no good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the chimney sweep |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remain** *in a quote* | might · perfect | we |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | the chimney sweep *not said here* | much trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |

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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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