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title: Yet it remained unsatisfied, and would exclaim, "Oh, if I could but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet it remained unsatisfied, and would exclaim, "Oh, if I could but keep on growing tall and old! Who acts: hare. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 10

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Yet it remained unsatisfied, and would exclaim, "Oh, if I could but keep on growing tall and old!

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**Who acts:** hare · **What happens:** remain, exclaim, keep, grow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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:pg27200:33:10
# text = Yet it remained unsatisfied, and would exclaim, "Oh, if I could but keep on growing tall and old!
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unsatisfied	unsatisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	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 | **remain** | past | hare |  |  |  |  | unsatisfied *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | would | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | gerund | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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