--- title: It is not always easy to find bacon and cheese-rind in foreign lands… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is not always easy to find bacon and cheese-rind in foreign lands every day, and it is not pleasant to have to endure hunger, and be perhaps, after all, eaten up alive by the cat." Who acts: trouble, cat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:178:18 # text = It is not always easy to find bacon and cheese-rind in foreign lands every day, and it is not pleasant to have to endure hunger, and be perhaps, after all, eaten up alive by the cat." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 8 bacon bacon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | always, easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | | bacon and cheese rind in foreign lands every day | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacon=Topic | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | trouble | | | | | pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **endure** | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | hunger | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunger=Circumstance | | 6 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **eat up** | participle · passive | the cat | all | | | | alive *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/19/) - ↑ back to [Soup From a Sausage Skewer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/)