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title: The anxiety I feel on this matter prevents me from enjoying myself i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The anxiety I feel on this matter prevents me from enjoying myself in Switzerland. Who acts: I, anxiety. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 20

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The anxiety I feel on this matter prevents me from enjoying myself in Switzerland.

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**Who acts:** I, anxiety · **What happens:** feel, prevent, enjoy · **To what, where:** anxiety, matter, me, myself, Switzerland

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anxiety), 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:pg27200:45:20
# text = The anxiety I feel on this matter prevents me from enjoying myself in Switzerland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **feel** | present | I | the anxiety *not said here* |  | this matter |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme on matter=Location |
| 2 | **prevent** | present | the anxiety | me |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme |
| 3 | **enjoy** | gerund | the anxiety *not said here* | myself |  | Switzerland |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |

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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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