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title: One gains nothing by travelling--everything can be acquired here qui… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One gains nothing by travelling--everything can be acquired here quite as easily; so I stayed at home. Who acts: One, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 2

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One gains nothing by travelling--everything can be acquired here quite as easily; so I stayed at home.

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**Who acts:** One, I · **What happens:** gain, travel, acquire, stay · **To what, where:** nothing, everything, home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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:pg27200:182:2
# text = One gains nothing by travelling--everything can be acquired here quite as easily; so I stayed at home.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | present | One | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **acquire** | can · passive |  | everything |  | here |  | easily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | past | I |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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