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title: Good gracious, what a quantity of gold there was! enough to buy all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Good gracious, what a quantity of gold there was! enough to buy all the sugar-sticks of the sweet-stuff women; all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the world, or even the whole town itself There was, indeed, an immense quantity. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 35

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Good gracious, what a quantity of gold there was! enough to buy all the sugar-sticks of the sweet-stuff women; all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the world, or even the whole town itself There was, indeed, an immense quantity.

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**What happens:** buy, be · **To what, where:** sugar sticks, gracious immense quantity

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:193:35
# text = Good gracious, what a quantity of gold there was! enough to buy all the sugar-sticks of the sweet-stuff women; all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the world, or even the whole town itself There was, indeed, an immense quantity.
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	whips	whip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	rocking	rocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	46	nmod:unmarked	_	_
48	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | all sugar sticks of the stuff women |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a gracious immense quantity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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