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title: Eccellenza, miserabili!" they exclaimed, stretching forth their dise… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Eccellenza, miserabili!" they exclaimed, stretching forth their diseased limbs. Who acts: Eccellenza. 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 38

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Eccellenza, miserabili!" they exclaimed, stretching forth their diseased limbs.

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**Who acts:** Eccellenza · **What happens:** exclaim, stretch, disease · **To what, where:** diseased limbs

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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 (Eccellenza), 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:pg27200:45:38
# text = Eccellenza, miserabili!" they exclaimed, stretching forth their diseased limbs.
1	Eccellenza	Eccellenza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	miserabili	miserabili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	diseased	disease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Eccellenza |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch** *in a quote* | gerund | Eccellenza *not said here* | rags's diseased limbs |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient |
| 3 | **disease** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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