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title: She was obliged to be satisfied with being able to look over the bea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was obliged to be satisfied with being able to look over the beautiful country and see the busy industry of men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 31

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She was obliged to be satisfied with being able to look over the beautiful country and see the busy industry of men.

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**What happens:** oblige, be, look, see · **To what, where:** Dryad, busy industry

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. 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:pg27200:24:31
# text = She was obliged to be satisfied with being able to look over the beautiful country and see the busy industry of men.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Dryad |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | over the beautiful country | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over country=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive |  | the busy industry of men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer industry=Stimulus |

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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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