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title: I have been very nearly carried away," she said; "it is a good thing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have been very nearly carried away," she said; "it is a good thing that you are come, for I want something to strengthen me. Who acts: woman, water, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 25

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I have been very nearly carried away," she said; "it is a good thing that you are come, for I want something to strengthen me.

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**Who acts:** woman, water, I · **What happens:** carry away, say, be, come, want, strengthen · **To what, where:** I, good thing, something, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, water, 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:pg27200:46:25
# text = I have been very nearly carried away," she said; "it is a good thing that you are come, for I want something to strengthen me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry away** | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | away, nearly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | water | a good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive |  | a good thing |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | present | I | something |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme |
| 6 | **strengthen** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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