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title: My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and to sit in my place and have a little sensible conversation with my neighbors. Who acts: My. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 47

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My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and to sit in my place and have a little sensible conversation with my neighbors.

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**Who acts:** My · **What happens:** make, shine, sit, have, please · **To what, where:** only pleasure, place, little sensible conversation

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (My), 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:pg27200:35:47
# text = My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and to sit in my place and have a little sensible conversation with my neighbors.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | My only pleasure |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after dinner |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | my place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | a little sensible conversation |  |  |  | with my neighbors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient |
| 5 | **please** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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