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title: No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enoug… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enough to do to sew my grave clothes." Who acts: one, I, enough. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 88

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No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enough to do to sew my grave clothes."

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**Who acts:** one, I, enough · **What happens:** care, trouble, have, do, sew · **To what, where:** king, enough, grave clothes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, enough), 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:pg27200:31:88
# text = No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enough to do to sew my grave clothes."
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	troubles	trouble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | present | no one |  |  |  |  | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
| 2 | **trouble** | present | no one *not said here* | king |  |  |  | about me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | enough |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | enough *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sew** | to-infinitive | enough *not said here* | my grave clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Product |

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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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