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title: Such grief is not for the world; it is not entertaining even to frie… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such grief is not for the world; it is not entertaining even to friends, and poor Knud had no friends; he was a stranger, wandering through strange lands to his home in the north. Who acts: Such grief, grief, poor Knud, Knud. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 22

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Such grief is not for the world; it is not entertaining even to friends, and poor Knud had no friends; he was a stranger, wandering through strange lands to his home in the north.

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**Who acts:** Such grief, grief, poor Knud, Knud · **What happens:** not be, not entertain, have, be, wonder · **To what, where:** friends, stranger, strange lands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such grief, grief, poor Knud, Knud), 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:pg27200:204:22
# text = Such grief is not for the world; it is not entertaining even to friends, and poor Knud had no friends; he was a stranger, wandering through strange lands to his home in the north.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	appos	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Such grief |  |  |  |  | for the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **entertain** | present · progressive | grief |  |  |  |  | to friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | poor Knud | no friends |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Knud | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | grief *not said here* |  |  | strange lands to Knud's home in the north |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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