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title: "Yes, it is a delightful place; there is nothing to do all day long… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, it is a delightful place; there is nothing to do all day long but eat, and while we are so well off out there, in this country there will not be a single green leaf on the trees, and the weather will be so cold that the clouds will freeze, and fall on the earth in little white rags." Who acts:
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 31

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"Yes, it is a delightful place; there is nothing to do all day long but eat, and while we are so well off out there, in this country there will not be a single green leaf on the trees, and the weather will be so cold that the clouds will freeze, and fall on the earth in little white rags."

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**Who acts:** river, nothing, we, weather, clouds · **What happens:** be, do, eat, not be, freeze, fall · **To what, where:** delightful place, single green leaf, trees, earth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, nothing, we, weather), 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:pg27200:183:31
# text = "Yes, it is a delightful place; there is nothing to do all day long but eat, and while we are so well off out there, in this country there will not be a single green leaf on the trees, and the weather will be so cold that the clouds will freeze, and fall on the earth in little white rags."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	off	off	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	cop	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	parataxis	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
56	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	conj	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
66	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | river | a delightful place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | day | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | there |  | off, well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | future |  | a single green leaf |  | the trees |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the weather |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **freeze** *in a quote* | future | the clouds |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | the clouds *not said here* |  |  | the earth in little white rags |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=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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