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title: But neither the student nor either of his travelling companions felt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But neither the student nor either of his travelling companions felt the least inclination to think of it in this way. Who acts: student. 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 cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 25

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But neither the student nor either of his travelling companions felt the least inclination to think of it in this way.

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**Who acts:** student · **What happens:** feel, think · **To what, where:** least inclination, way

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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 (student), 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:pg27200:45:25
# text = But neither the student nor either of his travelling companions felt the least inclination to think of it in this way.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the student  either | the least inclination |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the student  either *not said here* | the least inclination *not said here* |  | this way |  | of inclination | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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