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title: Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses, just as if I were at Roeskilde or Ringstedt. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 47

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Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses, just as if I were at Roeskilde or Ringstedt.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not see, be · **To what, where:** shop

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:41:47
# text = Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses, just as if I were at Roeskilde or Ringstedt.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	tumble	tumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Roeskilde	Roeskilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Ringstedt	Ringstedt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  | a shop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  | as Roeskilde or Ringstedt | 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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