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title: During the last years of my life I was sick and miserable, and I was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: During the last years of my life I was sick and miserable, and I was unable to bear creeping out of bed suddenly into the frost and cold. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 169

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During the last years of my life I was sick and miserable, and I was unable to bear creeping out of bed suddenly into the frost and cold.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, bear, creep out · **To what, where:** bed, frost

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:177:169
# text = During the last years of my life I was sick and miserable, and I was unable to bear creeping out of bed suddenly into the frost and cold.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | year | of my life; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **creep out** | gerund | I *not said here* | bed |  | the frost and cold |  | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location bed=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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