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title: There I found plenty of delicate food, but no opportunity for learni… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There I found plenty of delicate food, but no opportunity for learning how to make soup from a sausage skewer. Who acts: I, opportunity. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 5

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There I found plenty of delicate food, but no opportunity for learning how to make soup from a sausage skewer.

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**Who acts:** I, opportunity · **What happens:** find, learn, make · **To what, where:** plenty, soup, sausage skewer

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity), 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:pg27200:179:5
# text = There I found plenty of delicate food, but no opportunity for learning how to make soup from a sausage skewer.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I | plenty of delicate food |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | no opportunity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | no opportunity *not said here* | soup |  | a sausage skewer |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset soup=Product from skewer=Material |

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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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