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title: Once I saw one of them drop her load; she gave herself a great deal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Once I saw one of them drop her load; she gave herself a great deal of trouble in trying to raise it again, but she could not succeed. Who acts: I, one, rest, trouble. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 30

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Once I saw one of them drop her load; she gave herself a great deal of trouble in trying to raise it again, but she could not succeed.

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**Who acts:** I, one, rest, trouble · **What happens:** see, drop, give, try, raise, not succeed · **To what, where:** load, great deal, rest, deal, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, rest, trouble), 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:pg27200:180:30
# text = Once I saw one of them drop her load; she gave herself a great deal of trouble in trying to raise it again, but she could not succeed.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drop** | present | one of burdens | rest's load |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | rest | a great deal of trouble | rest |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient deal=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **raise** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | deal |  |  | again |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **succeed** | could | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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