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title: I can hear nothing in a place like this," and he had time enough to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I can hear nothing in a place like this," and he had time enough to think, for days and nights passed and no one came near him, and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put away large boxes in a corner. Who acts: I, daylight, days, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 100

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I can hear nothing in a place like this," and he had time enough to think, for days and nights passed and no one came near him, and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put away large boxes in a corner.

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**Who acts:** I, daylight, days, one, somebody, place · **What happens:** hear, have, think, pass, come, be · **To what, where:** nothing, place, corner · **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 (I, daylight, days, one), 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:pg27200:33:100
# text = I can hear nothing in a place like this," and he had time enough to think, for days and nights passed and no one came near him, and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put away large boxes in a corner.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
45	away	away	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | I | nothing |  | a place like this |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | daylight |  |  |  | time | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | daylight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | days and nights |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | no one |  |  |  |  | near daylight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | past · do-support | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | place |  |  | a corner |  | away, put *property* | tree rules |

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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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