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description: Everything is home-like and good, and yet, I know not why, I long for rest and peace; I can scarcely express what I feel. Who acts: Everything, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 112

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Everything is home-like and good, and yet, I know not why, I long for rest and peace; I can scarcely express what I feel.

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**Who acts:** Everything, I · **What happens:** be, not know, express, feel

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, 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:pg27200:214:112
# text = Everything is home-like and good, and yet, I know not why, I long for rest and peace; I can scarcely express what I feel.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Everything |  |  |  |  | home, like *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  | yet | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **express** | can | I |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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