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title: She could not go with them, because she had been suffering from head… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She could not go with them, because she had been suffering from headache ever since the new appointment, no doubt from eating too much. Who acts: crow, doubt. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 115

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She could not go with them, because she had been suffering from headache ever since the new appointment, no doubt from eating too much.

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**Who acts:** crow, doubt · **What happens:** not go, suffer, eat · **To what, where:** headache

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, doubt), 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:pg27200:173:115
# text = She could not go with them, because she had been suffering from headache ever since the new appointment, no doubt from eating too much.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | could | crow |  |  |  |  | with wings *= wing* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **suffer** | past · perfect · progressive | crow |  |  | headache | since the new appointment; ever |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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