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title: "It is really not at all pleasant to have a hole bored through one,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is really not at all pleasant to have a hole bored through one, but we can submit to a great deal when it is done with a good intention. Who acts: It, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 54

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"It is really not at all pleasant to have a hole bored through one, but we can submit to a great deal when it is done with a good intention.

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**Who acts:** It, we · **What happens:** not be, have, bore, submit, do · **To what, where:** all, hole

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we), 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:pg27200:167:54
# text = "It is really not at all pleasant to have a hole bored through one, but we can submit to a great deal when it is done with a good intention.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
8	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | It |  |  | all |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 3 | **bore** *in a quote* | participle |  | a hole *not said here* |  |  |  | through one | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through one=Location |
| 4 | **submit** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  | to a great deal | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deal=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | hole |  |  |  | with a good intention | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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