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title: I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have not been able to make myself better off; and it was God's will. Who acts: I, myself, linen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 148

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I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have not been able to make myself better off; and it was God's will.

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**Who acts:** I, myself, linen · **What happens:** scrub, wash, not be, make, better off, be · **To what, where:** myself

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself, linen), 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:pg27200:46:148
# text = I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have not been able to make myself better off; and it was God's will.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	better	better	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wash** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | coarse *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **better off** | infinitive | myself *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **is** | past | linen |  |  |  |  | 's God | 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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